Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Ronni took a mouthful of her drink , suddenly dry-mouthed at the thought of that . |
2 | Curly at the edges and mottled with age . |
3 | and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom . |
4 | and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom . |
5 | What are you curly at the back ? |
6 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
7 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
8 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
9 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
10 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
11 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
12 | And all this at a time when they are undergoing dramatic changes both physically and emotionally — changes which they often find very difficult to deal with . |
13 | And this at a time when resistance is likely to be lowered . |
14 | The proposal was evidently servicing a deficit model of education , which diagnosed that something was wrong with teachers which industry could put right : this at a time when education was faced by changes of revolutionary proportions , new content through curriculum reform required by the Education Reform Act and GCSE , new models of learning , new forms of assessment e.g. Records of Achievement ; new organisations e.g. tertiary colleges ; new accountability , newly appointed parent and industrial governors , new professionalism through initial teacher education , and training reforms for employment training . |
15 | Peter Hall directs all this at a hectic pace around Carl Toms 's lavish set . |
16 | You should n't have to put up with all this at a time of such sadness . |
17 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
18 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
19 | The treaty between Robert II of Flanders and Henry I of England , renewed by their successors , stipulated that each knight supplied to the English king should bring three horses with him — this at a time when a horse represented a major investment . |
20 | Chamberlain proposed this at a meeting of the Conservative ministers on 10 October . |
21 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
22 | ( And this at a time when the Unionists could install their own government whenever they wished , through their control of both Houses . ) |
23 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
24 | The President of the Law Society calculated in 1980 that , with some 44,000 solicitors in practice , the number of young people actively trying to qualify was 15,000 , and this at a time when work was stagnating . |
25 | This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street . |
26 | The world has lost confidence in us and now doubts Britain 's ability to successfully deal with its economic problems — this at a time when we are major producers of oil ! |
27 | This at a time when our much valued and valuable oil revenues are at their height : and on top of this our currency continually drops in value abroad . |
28 | This at a time when British Agriculture is being cut back in margins and output . |
29 | We shall refer to this at a number of points as well as to the recent Building Societies Act 1986 . |
30 | But , watching this at a distance , there 's nothing I can do but spit and hiss . ) |