Example sentences of "and [adv] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was at his best and most at home in the primary sector . |
| 2 | Efficiency about the house on the part of others always inspired wistful envy in Meredith who was efficient about the office and rather at sea about the home . |
| 3 | Their evil habits are illustrated in the following tale : a traveller , lost and alone at night on a craggy moor , was invited by a duergar to sit by his fire and warm himself . |
| 4 | Merton 's emergence in the public eye has been steady , and somewhat at odds with the prevailing comedy spirit . |
| 5 | It also becomes quite understandable why people tend to become ‘ ill ’ when there are a lot of stresses going on in their lives and especially at times of life crises such as griefs , changes in work and divorce . |
| 6 | Position on main rather than on secondary rail routes and especially at crossroads in the network ( nodal points ) was an important factor for growth . |
| 7 | There was only one topic , it would seem , in the staging-posts they passed on their way , in the halls of Kineth of Angus and Gillocher of Mar , of Malpedar of Buchan and of Morgund of Moray , before the fires of Hlodver at Dingwall and Odalric of Caithness , and finally at Birsay in their own hall on the shore , with Otkel leaning forward asking questions , and Thorkel Fóstri and Killer-Bardi and the rest sitting silent , listening , with the Earl 's sons and his wife . |
| 8 | Guy looked blankly inscrutable , and supremely at ease with his own formidable nakedness . |
| 9 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 10 | The celebrated preacher , Edward Irving ( 1792–1834 ) , who was at the height of his powers and still at peace with the Church of Scotland , had returned from London one Sabbath evening to preach once more to his own people . |
| 11 | Alone with their books , and still at work with God — |
| 12 | Despite the odds , the couple are still together — and still at war with their respective families . |
| 13 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 14 | As time went by , Mr Utterson became calmer and more at peace with himself . |
| 15 | The measurements are printed on a new page and will appear at an interval corresponding to the chosen degree of averaging , and also at intervals of approximately one hour and one day . |
| 16 | Vital at times of peace and also at times of war . |
| 17 | Everywhere the Parisian example was being followed , with differences in scale ; the public 's desire to be instructed in such museums , and also at exhibitions of apparatus , is a striking feature of the time . |
| 18 | This can be achieved by providing good quality bike-and-ride facilities at public transport stops in residential areas and also at destinations for those who wish to complete their journey by cycle ( Figure 9.7 ) . |
| 19 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 20 | This was schlock science , then and now at odds with mainstream genetics , but it was science in the service of ideology for a paranoid dictator in a hurry to make over his country . |
| 21 | And here at length to full perfection brought . |
| 22 | The way in which the word ‘ theory ’ is used in everyday speech , and even at times by some social scientists , can lead the beginner researcher into some of the most unfortunate errors imaginable . |
| 23 | The Irenes are a group of semi-double-flowered zonals , ideal plants for beginners and equally at home in a pot and a border . |
| 24 | The alliteration of ‘ sweet birds sang ’ is soft and harmonious and strangely at odds with the harshness of the picture painted so far . |
| 25 | Zadak looked at Kiah and then at Rilla with his blue eyes . |
| 26 | The blot was washed twice for 20 min in 2 SSC , 1% SDS at room temperature and then at 65°C in 0.2 SSC , 1% SDS for 20 min . |
| 27 | Anybody who has ever looked at sections of a rat 's brain and then at sections of a monkey 's brain will tell you that they look completely different . |
| 28 | And then at intervals of ten years/ |
| 29 | He was educated at Dursley Agricultural and Commercial Grammar School and then at schools in Banbury , Düsseldorf , and Versailles , before joining his father 's business . |
| 30 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |