Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These results suggest that the children of fathers who had been monitored for exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation in the nuclear industry may be at increased risk of developing leukaemia before their fifth birthday .
2 Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel .
3 The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels .
4 As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk .
5 Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour .
6 Smallholder Bookshop will be at this event .
7 ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since .
8 Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment .
9 And sometimes , towards dawn , the music would be at full blast and there would be hardly any movement at all , nothing left except maybe just one couple kissing — and yet that looked like dancing too .
10 Ideally , dosing should be at three week intervals over May and June and it is unwise to await the appearance of clinical signs of diarrhoea before administering the drugs .
11 If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture .
12 His mother would be at Thursday-evening Bingo , Rose-Ann out in Len 's car .
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