Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The party is to go ahead at the end of August .
2 Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards .
3 The beast is gazing disconsolately at the ground , its architectural studies abandoned .
4 The Pleasure Dome is situated upstairs at the Dome
5 If the subject is looking directly at the camera , the head should generally be placed centrally in the frame .
6 Whereas a sales tax is collected only at the point of final sale to the consumer , VAT is collected at different stages of the production process .
7 This is where the rim of the leather upper is turned outwards at the bottom and stitched through the midsoles to the sole .
8 In ‘ La Parure ’ and ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ the knowledge which , if the characters had possessed it would have changed their whole lives , is revealed right at the end .
9 In assimilation , by contrast , the environment is incorporated only at the level of comprehension the child has attained at any given stage ( Furth 1969 : 14 ) .
10 In this way Christ 's suffering from sin at the Passion , and man 's penance , are seen as part of one sacramental healing process : Such perception is foregrounded again at the point when the meditator devotionally embraces the cross .
11 He is grinning straight at the camera .
12 In this section our intention is to look briefly at the nature of debate surrounding this local tax reform .
13 So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning .
14 A child 's name should only be removed from the register when it is agreed unanimously at the review that an inter-agency protection plan is no longer necessary to protect the child .
15 In contrast , garam masala is used only at the end of cookery , to add voluptuous scent and flavour , revitalising and extending flavours which have been dulled by heat .
16 Slide your back foot up ( this may not be necessary in all cases ) and lift the kicking foot until the heel is pointing directly at the opponent 's mid-section .
17 The company is aiming squarely at the market targeted by 3Com Corp with its boundary router : small outposts of large organisations , which lack local network support .
18 Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door .
19 The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne .
20 If a radius is drawn from this centre through the corner of the rectangle , the centre of the arc for the smaller flap is fixed automatically at the point of intersection of the radius and the major axis .
21 If it is left completely at the level of the unconscious , most of us will muddle through its manifestations .
22 Morar is left behind at the watershed and the district of Lochaber entered .
23 Of the 50 men questioned 27 knew that Michael Fallon is the Conservative MP and that he is standing again at the election .
24 In high-frequency waves the water motion appears to be nearly circular so that , when the waves break , the mass of water is directed downwards at the beach ( Fig. 8.2A ) .
25 The plea for an understanding of ‘ totality ’ in Situationist writing derives from Lukács and Marx whose critique of ‘ separation ’ is directed exactly at the work/leisure distinction .
26 Anne is glimpsed briefly at the beginning of the film in the role of Dega 's wife .
27 The most interesting new addition is Open Desktop Lite , a cut-down version of release 3.0 that is pitched squarely at the standalone Intel workstation space also being coveted by SunSoft Inc , Univel Inc and NeXT Computer Inc .
28 This system of power relations is maintained both at the material level-by the military , the police , industry and so on — and at the ideological level : by the media , the family and the education system ( Millett 1983 ) .
29 It is now a listed building and it is maintained annually at a cost of £1,000 a time .
30 If your battle plan is to charge headlong at the enemy and engage him as soon as possible chariots are ideal .
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