Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire . |
| 2 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 3 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 4 | The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 . |
| 5 | The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally . |
| 6 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 7 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 8 | It is at once an amusing and instructive exercise in the power of communicating . |
| 9 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 10 | So you see , it is at least a moral responsibility of the City . ’ |
| 11 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 12 | His choice is wealth : he is at once the traditional hero of British fiction in search of a happy marriage and prosperity — Tom Jones or David Copperfield — and , in his brisk competitive zeal , the first fictional yuppie . |
| 13 | We do not suggest he would be the right Labour leader , but he is at least an honest and fearlessly outspoken politician . ’ |
| 14 | At the latest count it was at least a hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | It was at least an important dream , a literary dream , that dictated the pattern of our days . |
| 16 | It was at least the sixth time over a two-year period that the unveiling had been postponed . |
| 17 | Parr was not a jealous man , he told himself , but he was at least a human one . |