Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] is at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 2 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 3 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 4 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave , ’ said Major Astle . |
| 6 | Major Astle said : ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave . |
| 7 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 8 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 9 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 10 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 11 | Although it is at a disadvantage to the very deep water berths at Tilbury , Hull and Southampton , which can berth vessels of 25–30,000 tonnes , it still handles similar tonnages ! |
| 12 | Encouraged by the demonstrated efficacy of CBT with disorders such as depression , the social worker can consider that it is at least plausible to use similar strategies with other client difficulties . |
| 13 | For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists . |
| 14 | Its advantage is that it is at least problem-orientated and gives the impression ( which is sometimes justified ) that one has the means to solve it . |
| 15 | That is , genes control the synthesis of protein molecules , and , for that reason , there is general acceptance that it is at the level of molecular interactions that the behaviour of cells and embryos needs to be understood . |
| 16 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie . |
| 18 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 19 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 20 | Normally , at the entry to the roll , the model is in high speed forward flight which means that it is at full power and in a nose down attitude to prevent it climbing . |
| 21 | It follows that it is at least possible in principle to regard some versions of positivism and some versions of natural law as tending towards a middle position on my spectrum . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to understand the root causes of our failure to take industrial R&D seriously , but Sir Eric thinks that it is at least in part simply a reflection of a more pervasive anti-intellectualism which seems to run through British society . |
| 23 | Celia Brackenridge seems to think that it is at best frivolous , and at worst ideologically unsound , to suggest that any progressive change is possible in a field of civil society and popular culture ( such as sport ) unless or until we have put the world to right . |
| 24 | The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established . |
| 25 | Now , I do not seek to defend the conduct of the Sun , but I do think that it is at best messy and may also be dangerous to use the common law to outflank the Act . |
| 26 | ‘ Although this is not binding upon your Lordships , the United Kingdom is , of course , a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and it is urged that it is at least desirable that the domestic law of the United Kingdom should accord with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights under the Convention . |
| 27 | Mr. Thornton submits that this passage supports his argument for the defendant in the instant case , but it seems to their Lordships that it is at best neutral . |
| 28 | The robot concludes that it is at the summit , and stops . |
| 29 | The conglomerate is indeed becoming typical of technologically advanced cultural production in the advanced capitalist economies , and its theoretical importance , in this context , is that it is at once dominant in modern cultural production and yet , in its determining forms , radically separate from it ; its ‘ purpose ’ ( cf. page 67 ) now primarily elsewhere . |
| 30 | But in assessing the usefulness of VARBRUL , it is important to note that it is at present neither commercially available nor adequately documented for inexperienced users . |