Example sentences of "[pron] [is] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence . |
| 2 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 3 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 4 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 5 | ( For a political perspective on the issue of VAT on fuel we go live to Torquay and our Political Editor , Peter Hayes , who 's at the Liberal Democrat Conference . ) |
| 6 | This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm . |
| 7 | Now I 'm working to save the earth , ’ says Mitsu Kimata , who is at the sharp end of Body Shop 's thrust into Japan . |
| 8 | A tendon injury in her left hand makes last year 's winner Marie-Laure de Lorenzi , from France , an absentee this week , while Alison Nicholas , the 1987 winner , who is at the qualifying school in America , is also missing . |
| 9 | The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not . |
| 10 | I do my best to be totally honest and fair , whoever is at the other end . |
| 11 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 12 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 13 | right oh it 's at the Labour Club right is that , is that alright with everyone ? |
| 14 | But now it 's at the left edge of the area . |
| 15 | Two lovely lads I 'll tell you and that concert tonight going to be er absolute corker it 's at the Royal Concert Hall tonight in Nottingham . |
| 16 | If you want to It 's at the very back , I can see it . |
| 17 | But even then it 's at the wrong angle , you , you must n't , you should n't put your hand right inside . |
| 18 | When it was over Janet came into the room and said : ‘ We found a small tumour but you are very lucky because it 's at the preliminary stage . |
| 19 | It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found . |
| 20 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 21 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 22 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 23 | Above all , it is at the European level that expanding aid programmes could be devised to stimulate a widening of trade and recovery in the south and east . |
| 24 | Learning takes place through successive cycles of assimilation and accommodation ; and it is at the accommodative phase that this clearer vision is needed . |
| 25 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 26 | It is , it is , yes , is it , it is at the present time , but it is it is growing . |
| 27 | All men at Maidstone are long sentence prisoners , serving more than four years , and it is at the top end of the scale , with life sentence prisoners , that Maidstone performs its second specialist task . |
| 28 | It is at the local level that change needs to be assessed and at which the variety of political forces at work was best displayed . |
| 29 | So it is at the opposite end of the scale — with the small sums lent by weekly credit collectors — that the personal interview in the home is the rule . |
| 30 | Yet , ironically , it is at the genetic level that the most striking molecular differences are found between E. coli ( representing bacteria in general ) and elephants ( or any higher organisms that have cells with nuclei ) . |