Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For decades women have agonized over their breasts — either too big or too small ; their overall body shape — no waist , bum too big , legs too short ; and the various component parts of face and hair , all of which have to be altered , enhanced or de-emphasized at regular intervals . |
| 2 | Not to be defeated , the following year Scott started a new paper , the African Times , which was even more strongly anti-Federation and aimed at liberal-minded whites and Africans . |
| 3 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 4 | Clearly differentiated from each other , they were mass-produced and targeted at different sections of a guaranteed market , who knew what they were getting . |
| 5 | The preamble stated , at length , that the poor within the five town parishes ( St. John , St. Mary , St. Peter , St. Paul and St. Cuthbert ) were ‘ very numerous and supported at great and burthensome expense by the inhabitants of those parishes ’ . |
| 6 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 7 | These used rotating discs to initiate a quasi-musical sound which was then filtered , processed and reproduced at different pitches . |
| 8 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 10 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |
| 11 | Clearly , in order to obtain this kind of information it is necessary to conduct three assessments under similar conditions so that they are directly comparable and spaced at equal time intervals . |
| 12 | New hospitals are open and working at full pressure . |
| 13 | The mosfet is less than 1µm wide and operates at liquid nitrogen temperatures ( -196°C ) . |
| 14 | He was breathless and moving at high speed , but there was nothing agitated or uncontrolled about him . |
| 15 | Scenes using the ships were then animated and shot at high resolution on to 35mm film . |
| 16 | Electronic Buyers ' News claims Sun has recently been ‘ selectively marketing ’ the Sparc90 ( UX No 395 ) , an embedded Sparc design it built in tandem with Sun spin-off Harvest VLSI Design Center Inc and described at Hot Chips : The 13 MIPS design incorporates CPU and floating point on the same IC . |