Example sentences of "it be at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is at once an amusing and instructive exercise in the power of communicating . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So you see , it is at least a moral responsibility of the City . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At the latest count it was at least a hundred and fifty . |
| 9 | It was at least an important dream , a literary dream , that dictated the pattern of our days . |
| 10 | It was at least the sixth time over a two-year period that the unveiling had been postponed . |