Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats . |
| 2 | For the responses to be regarded as in any way representative of the views of the congregation , there should be at least a seventy-five per cent response rate . |
| 3 | Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands . |
| 4 | Before primary gall stones form , there must be at least a triple defect : ( i ) the secretion of bile that is supersaturated with cholesterol , ( ii ) a nucleation defect due to an excess of promotors or a deficiency of inhibitors of crystallisation , or both , and ( iii ) stasis within the gall bladder secondary to impaired gall bladder motor function . |
| 5 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 6 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 7 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 8 | The Christian painting may be at once a holy picture and a convincing representation of a woman tenderly cradling her son , seen in front of a north Italian landscape . |
| 9 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 10 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 11 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 12 | ( Each abacus bead will be at either the left or the right of the abacus wire . ) |
| 13 | What we mean … is that the probability of the person 's having an accident is high , and his own mariner of driving will be at least a partial cause of the accident . |
| 14 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 15 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |