Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People with high levels of blood cholesterol are at an increased risk of a heart attack . |
| 2 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 3 | In drama we have a great advantage over other subjects in that non-verbal language and narrative are at the centre of our work . |
| 4 | In the central Philippine city of Cebu , meanwhile , negotiations with the 200 army rebels who seized an air force base are at a stalemate . |
| 5 | In the central Philippine city of Cebu , meanwhile , negotiations with the 200 army rebels who seized an air force base are at a stalemate . |
| 6 | A sign telling parents to keep their children under supervision and a poster stating the exhibition is of lesbian photography are at the gallery entrance . |
| 7 | SUDBURY Rugby Club are at the forefront of a campaign to give minnows of the new national league set-up a bigger slice of the game 's sponsorship cake . |
| 8 | If Hizir Bey held a muftilik in Istanbul at all , then-and this is by no means certain-the reasonable conclusion both from the silence of the great majority of Turkish sources on the subject of Hizir Bey 's muftilik and from the evidence indicating Fahreddin Acemi 's preeminence vis-a-vis Hizir Bey is that the claims made by d'Ohsson and Hammer for Hizir Bey 's importance in his capacity as mufti are at the least exaggerated . |
| 9 | Provision and guidance are at the discretion of the sensitive adult . |
| 10 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 11 | During the noisy thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations , when Deng Xiaoping and his reform programme were at the peak of their popularity , few voices of dissent could be heard . |
| 12 | The years of partnership were at an end . |
| 13 | ‘ Antonescu 's at the cutting edge of psycho-technology . |
| 14 | Too often it is left to the police and union officials to work these things out in a hostile environment where clear thinking is at a premium . |
| 15 | ‘ My thinking is at the moment that we are likely to be without him . |
| 16 | Critics of the JCT point to these compromises and suggest that as a result either the client or the contractor is at a disadvantage . |
| 17 | The Mermaid is at the end of the Old Town in a row of narrow houses which peters out on to the beach past the Fisherman 's Museum ( complete with stuffed albatross ) and the new Sea Life Centre . |
| 18 | ‘ Mrs Connon 's bedroom is at the front . ’ |
| 19 | His credibility as EC President is at an all-time low just when he needs to tackle yet another crisis . |
| 20 | When beating the sideways force of the wind is at a maximum and so we need the daggerboard right down to get a good grip on the water and stop the boat drifting sideways . |
| 21 | If fat loss is at a relatively slow , steady , controlled pace and if moderate exercise is taken , metabolic rate can be kept at a reasonable level ; it might even increase , and you will be fitter , too . |
| 22 | ‘ Morale in the Inland Revenue is at an all-time low as a result of market testing and centralisation . |
| 23 | His home club is at The Lakes , Sydney , which is a par-73 championship course . |
| 24 | But the funniest part about it was in King George 's playing fields where the cricket club is at the beginning of the war that was a A R P assembly point for the A R P wardens . |
| 25 | At the front , and the zip 's at the front as well . |
| 26 | This irony is at the heart of the British Museum 's witty and challenging exhibition , ‘ Fake ? |
| 27 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 28 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |
| 29 | Public confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low — hardly surprising , considering recent miscarriages of justice such as the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six cases . |
| 30 | The address of your local EHO Department is at the end of this book . |