Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , people are rather flattered at the thought of being so important , but this may in turn create the problem that they become untypical because they know that they are in the sample , and will be questioned regularly about their lives , activities , and attitudes . |
| 2 | Any segment of the cervical spine may be affected by the rheumatoid inflammatory process , but destructive changes are most prominent at the occipito atlantoaxial junction . |
| 3 | Excessive stress can damage the heart and it might not be a coincidence that cardiac disorders are most frequent at the time of waking or the hours just after . |
| 4 | Then he brushes over some of the issues which run through the play which are especially noticeable at the end . |
| 5 | It 's possible that your feelings are especially strong at the moment because you can see both your children growing away from the baby stage , leaving you with the knowledge that that chapter of your life is perhaps closed . |
| 6 | The French made Line 7s are not as high cut as the other two models and are especially low at the back of the heel to avoid pressure on the Achilles tendon and the subsequent risk of tendonitis . |
| 7 | Care workers involved in the case are so concerned at the possibility of the children being returned home , they are considering a move to have this evidence made public . |
| 8 | If so , then I shall cancel my subscription to , New Scientist and take out one of those half-price offers on Nature which are so abundant at the moment . |
| 9 | She said there could be heavy demands made on Samaritan volunteers , especially because they are critically understaffed at the moment . |
| 10 | The desire to avoid using past expenditure in assessing need means that attention has often to be confined to those indicators which are easily available at the Local Authority level , but the choice often appears to be arbitrarily restricted . |
| 11 | And , faced with this question , most men are totally nonplussed at the idea . |
| 12 | Evenings are always special at the Forte Hotel Village . |
| 13 | ‘ Interest groups are more vociferous at the planning stages . |
| 14 | A few places are still available at the conference , which will be of interest to solicitors in private practice , local government and health service lawyers , as well as other professionals and voluntary organisations involved in the provision of community care . |
| 15 | Others have been returned after this date , and some are still outstanding at the time of writing . |
| 16 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 17 | The thing that is really appealing about In England Now is that self-important , overbearing medical people are still aghast at the idea of a major journal of international repute devoting space to humour . |
| 18 | Oxford United are still stuck at the bottom of the first division … after last night 's draw against Barnsley … while Hereford suffered a worse fate … they lost at Gillingham … |
| 19 | Beginners are often surprised at the length of time it takes a learner to learn something : they tend to think that they need to say something once only for the whole class to have it ready for use a few seconds later . |
| 20 | Officials are particularly pleased at the success of the new Fast-tag electronic payment system . |
| 21 | And high-specification cars are particularly weak at the moment . |
| 22 | The researchers are particularly concerned at the impact on the food industry which currently exports a high proportion of its output to South East England and can not possibly compete with the substantially improved delivery times open to French competitors once the Tunnel is opened . |
| 23 | Children are particularly welcome at the Castle and special guide books are available as well as educational material for school groups . |
| 24 | Indeed , aggression is one of the most predictable ( stable ) psychological traits or attributes over the life-span ; children who are particularly aggressive at the age of three are also likely to be the children who fight and quarrel most frequently at fourteen and even in early adulthood . |
| 25 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 26 | The other side of that is that I think a lot of dons are increasingly concerned at the level of alcohol consumption and the sort of behaviour that can emerge as a result of it , you know I do sense that many of us think it 's a real problem . |
| 27 | However , if you are quite unwell at the point of conception and during the pregnancy and/or you are injecting drugs , the pregnancy could lead to HIV-related illness . |
| 28 | The second is a nightmare — how do you know whether or not the interviewer feels incompatible with your sign or believes that people born under your sign are genetically hopeless at the job ? |
| 29 | Effectively this means that some students at least are initially anxious at the prospect of any language work with a grammatical focus which does not include a formalisation of the data and a description of the rules by the teacher . |
| 30 | A judge 's daughter who was jailed for supplying drugs claims that drugs and sex are freely available at the prison where she 's serving her sentence . |