Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customarily , the authority is only usually involved at the final stages when approval to go ahead is required . |
| 2 | In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 3 | The contrast between gas-rich and gas-poor magmas is much more pronounced at the viscous granitic end of the scale . |
| 4 | I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides . |
| 5 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 6 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 7 | At the hearing there is a right of audience for counsel or for the agent — usually exercised only by counsel , and indeed sometimes the parliamentary agent is not even involved at the inquiry stage . |
| 8 | Party leaders will be making efforts to ensure that Mr Lawson is not openly attacked at the conference . |
| 9 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 10 | Hence , in this case there is a lower measured exothermicity from a structure which is already partially disordered at the lowest temperature from which ΔH is measured . |
| 11 | If in fact a charge is already registered then as the land certificate is already notionally deposited at the registry no difficulty would appear to occur and registration can take place . |
| 12 | He 's not exactly thrilled at the prospect himself . |
| 13 | I 've got a filing cabinet that 's sat in my little corner which is empty , just a big tin box that 's got little keys , I mean , but it 's not ideally situated at the moment . |
| 14 | This procedure is sometimes followed when a " branch " county court has a long defended action which is more conveniently heard at the judge 's main court in some large town . |
| 15 | Accommodation is a significant driving factor in the process of new dialect formation as described by Trudgill ( 1986 ) , but it is more easily studied at the level of individuals who adjust their language behaviour given a particular set of circumstances . |
| 16 | Given its height and vigour , L. serotina is probably best accommodated at the back of a herbaceous border or in the wild garden if you are lucky enough to have such a place . |
| 17 | The continuity of martial values is also brilliantly suggested at the end when Coriolanus 's son ritually receives his father 's sword from Volumnia while his mother looks grievingly on . |
| 18 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |
| 19 | The purpose of the narrative ( the " moral " ) is often explicitly stated at the end . |
| 20 | This gambit , which Short has never played before , is almost never seen at the top level . |
| 21 | The ‘ lumpers ’ ( usually psychologists ) counter that objectivity is too often gained at the expense of something more valuable , namely , ‘ meaning ’ . |
| 22 | In a battle between ancients and moderns which is frequently waged in English departments , Renaissance writing is too often perceived at the centre of the argument for the preservation of a restrictive high cultural ethos in literary study . |
| 23 | ‘ The situation is therefore very clouded at the moment and funeral directors should treat claims of big VAT refunds with caution . |