Example sentences of "[conj] it is at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , genes control the synthesis of protein molecules , and , for that reason , there is general acceptance that it is at the level of molecular interactions that the behaviour of cells and embryos needs to be understood . |
| 2 | The robot concludes that it is at the summit , and stops . |
| 3 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 4 | Many of the GPs who are now budget holders are proudly boasting of the better service they can offer patients but all freely admit that it is at the expense of the patients of nonbudget-holding GPs . |
| 5 | These are questions which history departments must pose for themselves but it should be borne in mind that it is at the end of the key stage that a final assessment will be required . |
| 6 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 7 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 8 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
| 9 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 10 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 11 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 12 | In these days when party politics have entered so fully into local government , nominations to committees frequently come from the political groups of the council and it is at the group meetings of the council that a new member should stake his claim for membership of particular committees of his choice . |
| 13 | And it is at the moment because nobody 's buying any goods . |
| 14 | The company 's main business is in sheet fed offset and it is at the forefront of printing on recycled paper . |
| 15 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 16 | On top of this a generous layer of washed pebbles or cobbles is placed and the pump outlet drawn up until it is at the surface of the stones . |
| 17 | And if it is at the bottom of the ocean - " He stopped . |
| 18 | The multiplier of 8-12 is obviously of interest if it is at the top of its range ( 12 x £900,000 less tax £7 million ) . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 20 | Oldham boss Joe Royle said : ‘ Scoring goals has not normally been a problem for us but it is at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | The Library 's historical archive is arranged in a reasonable historical order , and is contained in acid-free boxes , but it is at the moment unindexed , and the store room which contains it is totally unsuitable for archive consultation . |
| 22 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 23 | Some psycholinguistic models ( e.g. Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) assume that the beginning of a word is known , either because it is at the beginning of the utterance or because the previous word has been identified . |
| 24 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 25 | Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe . |
| 26 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |
| 27 | Anyone who decides to intervene in a family 's problems , even though it is at the family 's request , has a professional duty to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the methods used . |
| 28 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 29 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 30 | as it is at the Lyceum that there is kind of historically a certain amount of , not exactly friction , but I mean something that has |