Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Flanders , where the count was loyal to Philip VI and perhaps alarmed at the expansionist tendencies of Hainault , Edward pursued a policy of exploiting the social and political tensions between the Flemish-speaking industrial towns and the nobility of the predominantly French-speaking countryside .
2 What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) .
3 Perhaps peter Fuller 's Theoria ( 1988 ) , a call for a return to earnest Ruskinian values by a critic who had lost his faith in Modernism , contrives to be theoretical and distinctively British at the same time ; but that is the work of an art critic .
4 But more recently , as companies have become more and more concerned at the escalating costs of purchasing and maintaining increasingly advanced technological capabilities , fundamental questions are being asked as to how the use of IT gives a company strategic advantage — if it does [ Earl ( 1988 ) ; Bruce ( 1988 ) ] .
5 But also , and for architects of this period more importantly , the silhouette created by the plan had the advantage of being symmetrical and romantically complex at the same time . ’
6 ‘ I 'm not sure if I can wait the length of time it will take — but since you seem to believe that you can … ’ he added in an ironic mutter , and shrugged , the gesture oddly dismissive and yet decisive at the same time .
7 Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ?
8 She 's very tough and very sweet at the same time .
9 That 's a very odd moment for the government to load on up to seventeen and a half percent er there which would er threaten I think , the existence of a number of newspapers , particularly in the provinces but also possible at the national level and that would be a great shame .
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