Example sentences of "[be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were to be at equal expense for the working of the mine . |
| 2 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 3 | A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that management can provide alternative more attractive forms of work organisation but these may be at higher cost . |
| 4 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 5 | ‘ Dinner will be at eight o'clock if that 's okay ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm to tell you that dinner will be at eight , ’ Wendy passed the message cheerily . |
| 7 | A Wait in the Refectory until you are dismissed : this will usually be at 8.55 am . |
| 8 | Market guru , Peter Thompson , now retired from Barclays de Zoete Wedd , but still forecasting market trends , has published a document predicting that the FT-SE 100 could be at 2,100 by the end of the month ( it closed at 2,233.9 , down 3.9 , yesterday ) . |
| 9 | Informally , the bank admits that if sterling was still in the ERM , the underlying rate of inflation could be down almost to zero now , but base rates would still be at 10 per cent , and the prospects for the economic growth and unemployment scarcely bear thinking about . |
| 10 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 11 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 12 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 13 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 14 | Any minute now and they 'll be at each other 's throats again . |
| 15 | The first month of the pool starts on April 4th and thereafter someone will be at each Mass to collect subscriptions . |
| 16 | The properties that we 're building will be available er , the initial lettings a and sales will be one hundred percent er , to council nominees subsequent lettings and nominations will be at seventy one percent which is the maximum level that we can agree under the housing corporation rules . |
| 17 | At the top , leaders Whitby expect to be at virtual full strength for their game at Tow Law , who will be without Darren Darwen and Tony Higgs . |
| 18 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 19 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 20 | There are many sincere souls who find the idea of God becoming a human to be at best implausible , and at worst blasphemous . |
| 21 | They now recognised that their plan to send some intelligent lads for education in farriery to such continental schools would be at best a rather feeble stopgap measure , while in any case the revolutionary situation in France was not favourable to the original Odiham plan . |
| 22 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 23 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 24 | All translations , on this approach , would be at best approximations . |
| 25 | In these dialect-divergent studies ( J. Milroy , 1981 ; Johnston , 1983 ; Newbrook , 1986 ) , however , it is the linguistic analysis that is the greatest immediate challenge facing the investigator : if we do not investigate the internal linguistic structure of the speech community itself , the sociolinguistic interpretation of the data will be at best superficial , and , at worst , wrong . |
| 26 | Where a director of music has an inadequate knowledge of the liturgy , the musical contribution may be at best out of keeping with the rest of the celebration , and at worst destructive of it . |
| 27 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 28 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 29 | It seems at times to dwell excessively and inaccurately on the ineffectiveness of the English resistance ( see below ) , and is likely for the 990s at least to be at best a partial record . |
| 30 | Even if all these animals were buried on-farm , the long term environmental consequences would be at best uncertain " . |