Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curly at the edges and mottled with age . |
| 2 | Steve Martin 's manically over-conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy . |
| 3 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 4 | In contract or tort , for example , the first question to be asked is whether the plaintiff has suffered some legally recognized wrong at the hands of the defendant . |
| 5 | All the same the effect was n't quite right , and so she undid the Alice-band at the nape of her neck and let her hair fall to her shoulders , tousled and damp at the edges . |
| 6 | A specific terminal must be allocated for use by Offline at the times when an offline run is to be conducted , as defined by the Offline Manager . |
| 7 | The surface was grooved with the tumult of adversarial currents , the turbid water lapping high at the trunks of willows and alders on the banks . |
| 8 | In general , chloride concentrations are high at the edges of the woodland and low in the centre . |
| 9 | The top is a bra-style with a scooped neckline and a low back ; the matching pants have an easy , roll-down top and are cut fairly high at the sides to make your legs look longer . |
| 10 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 11 | Besides , he got embarrassed at the stares people gave Slater , even if Slater himself did n't seem to notice . |
| 12 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 13 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 14 | According to my understanding of , of Labour history , it was er during the war years , at one of the Labour Party conferences , that a NUPE resolution supported by COHSE , actually er brought about some of the , the , the many things that were written within the Beveridge report , and committed the Labour Party to the foundation of the National Health Service that would be free at the points of need for every member of the community . |
| 15 | This is the ‘ quiet ’ season for branch events , but the AGM and social at the Reddings on 26th February is an important occasion , so do try to go along . |
| 16 | A : It 's gone brown at the sides . |
| 17 | was turning brown at the edges . |
| 18 | This makes it harder to wax indignant at the ideas being canvassed in Washington . |
| 19 | Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed . |
| 20 | The middle-length waxy horns are dark at the tips and grow outwards , curving slightly downwards on the bull but spreading gracefully and turning upwards towards the ends on the cow . |
| 21 | Shipping agents are alarmed at the consequences of any strike . |
| 22 | But Hartington soon became alarmed at the plans to give increased powers to what he termed ‘ fanatical local authorities ’ , and he wrote to Rosebery asking him to withdraw support for the measures . |
| 23 | By the end of the decade , the Russians saw German economic links as threatening alarmed at the numbers of German " advisers " and their political activities in Iran . |
| 24 | Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the plan . |
| 25 | The Arab world was alarmed at the implications of the new Cabinet for the peace process , formed as it was at a time when the USA was considering breaking off its 16-month dialogue with the PLO , following the abortive raid on the Israeli coast on May 30 [ see this page for breaking off of dialogue on June 20 ] . |
| 26 | 6 ) Some of our constituents may be alarmed at the implications of page 3 para 3 , not so much on the question of ‘ equality ’ but of accountability , and the suggestion that Christian Aid should be required to be accountable to our partners would take a lot of explaining . |
| 27 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 28 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 29 | Gynaecologists , however , will be dismayed at the authors ' apparent lack of understanding of the management of a common medical complaint . |
| 30 | ‘ Our Embassy Leisure Breaks offer transport and some tourism services but the Directive is confused at the margins . |