Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance .
2 Consider what happens when a crack approaches an interface of this kind which is roughly at right angles to it .
3 When we were outside the house , where no one could hear us , she said : ‘ As nobody is out at this time I thought it would be nice to go to that field which is full of melons .
4 she 's just at that age where you cop she copies everything you know ?
5 Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests .
6 They show us that something is there at that time , although they tell us nothing of origins , date of abandonment , use of the site , or its importance .
7 There 's nowhere at this time of night ! ’
8 paid me poll tax , paid me s search fee and got a little bit of cash out for readies and s , there 's now at this moment in time , there 's four hundred and fifty pound in there .
9 It 's out at that way .
10 Sometimes you need a lot of volume , because it 's only at high volumes that you get certain frequencies and certain kinds of feedback .
11 It 's usually at this stage , it goes horribly wrong .
12 If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage .
13 Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today .
14 It is often at these times that the glider becomes stalled without the pilot noticing , and then his instincts are bound to be automatic as the nose and wing drops .
15 Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse .
16 Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece .
17 At high speed , the Alpine feels rock steady which suggests careful attention to aerodynamic tuning and it is only at lower speeds , over give-and-take roads , that the price of the rear engine layout has to be paid with momentary vagueness in the steering when the car crests a brow .
18 The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment .
19 It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book .
20 It is only at this point that the style gets locked in .
21 It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence .
22 It is perhaps at this stage of our spiritual pilgrimage that we begin to develop an appetite for reading the Bible devotionally — that is , out of love for God .
23 His confidence was justified and in mid June he is home at 61 Shelgate Road and their correspondence becomes a thin trickle of notes and letter-cards as they make arrangements to meet when Helen was free from her work .
24 What 's on at Pallant House
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