Example sentences of "[noun] and at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry 's response was to send yet more messengers and at long last he was able to persuade his son to come to see him . |
| 2 | Markedly smaller than smallest Curlews , from which also distinguished by faster wing-beats , distinctive tittering trill and at close range by two dark and one pale stripes on head . |
| 3 | Finally then , as feminists , it is vital that we raise these issues in our trade unions , our work , our political parties and at local grass-roots level , insisting that feminist demands are incorporated into the general political strategy and so broadening the socialist perspective . |
| 4 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in London between 31 July 1985 and 28 February 1990 audited the accounts of a limited company , a company in which his wife was a shareholder and at various times an office holder , resulting in him not being free of any interest which might detract or be seen to detract from his professional independence and integrity was reprimanded and ordered to pay £600 by way of costs . |
| 5 | It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one . |
| 6 | You 'll find crystals for sale in New Age shops , gift shops and at psychic fairs . |
| 7 | He was born in 1928 and educated at Winchester College and at New College , Oxford , where he obtained a First in Classics . |
| 8 | Penzance has fine views of St Michael 's Mount , a fairytale castle built on an island reached at high tide by boat and at low tide by a causeway , which is owned by the National Trust . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope it will do the same in people 's homes and at other places of work . ’ |
| 10 | The children should be given the opportunity to mix with handicapped people , and encouraged to participate in voluntary activities , helping in homes and at social clubs for the handicapped . |
| 11 | Further , the expanding provision by LEAs of vocational and recreational classes in rural schools and at urban technical colleges siphoned-off potential WEA students , although the long tradition and attractiveness of the WEA programmes in Norwich and Cambridge enabled both cities to withstand the counter-attractions . |
| 12 | There was some manufacture of salt , both on the east coast and at inland brine springs , but this was insufficient to meet the country 's requirements , and substantial supplies had to be imported . |
| 13 | An arbitrator is immune from suit , both by statute and at common law . |
| 14 | Any observant traveller who moves from the snow-tipped Himalayas in the North to the sun-soaked sands of Cape Comorin at India 's southern tip , will encounter — particularly in the rural areas and at sacred centres of pilgrimage wherever Siva , God of both Divine Wisdom and regeneration , is the presiding Deity — the serpent motif sculptured within shrines , impressed on myriads of stone implants in the ground and depicted in art . |
| 15 | Although oats , barley , rye , and even wheat have been grown ( sometimes successfully ) in cold , wet areas and at high altitudes , the chances of a good harvest are very much reduced in such conditions . |
| 16 | She could turn on the spot by rotating the cylinders fore and aft in opposite directions and at different speeds . |
| 17 | Since they would be going in different directions and at different times , Dora would use their car and another member of the group would give Rose a lift . |
| 18 | This is the enlargement of many lymph nodes ( lymphadenopathy ) in the neck , armpits and at other sites in the body , and is usually painless . |
| 19 | This can be appreciated by considering how , in different countries and at different times , the provision of health care , housing , education and other ‘ essential ’ services such as electricity and transport , has been subject to varying degrees of public ownership and control . |
| 20 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 21 | If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view . |
| 22 | Many villages , such as Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire , retain the tradition of erecting the pole and dancing round on May Eve and at other times . |
| 23 | Dad and Eva travelled to all Charlie 's gigs , at art colleges , in pubs and at small festivals in muddy fields , Eva writhing and cheering all through them , beer in hand . |
| 24 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 25 | The final year is offered both at honours and at ordinary degree level . |
| 26 | What of the implications of the traditional division of roles in the home and at paid work ? |
| 27 | And so Leonard , from an early age , at home and at Hebrew school , was brought to the source of his faith . |
| 28 | Education took place not only in schools and colleges , but in the home and at local and national gatherings ( as in the case of the National Home Reading Union ) ; at public galleries and museums ; and even within city streets , in the signifying processes encouraged through the erection of monuments of a national flavour in prominent positions within the urban landscape . |
| 29 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
| 30 | There are specific procedures to adopt in certain circumstances and at certain airfields — You must study these in Air Pilot or Flight Guides . |