Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and woodlice are at work on the word , |
| 2 | SEVEN schemes in County Durham including the Darlington Cross Town Route are at risk because more than £4.5m of European grants could be blocked . |
| 3 | However , where large amounts of money are at stake , the manipulation can be more serious . |
| 4 | Luke , the writer of the gospel and the book of Acts , is at pains to expose prejudice , especially religious prejudice , and to show the difference the transforming work of Christ makes on the mind where issues of prejudice are at stake . |
| 5 | In round two on November 21 , Waterloo Dock are at home to Ashton United and Cammell Laird host Salford City . |
| 6 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 7 | Each and every one felt threatened , felt their own families and peace of mind were at risk . |
| 8 | It can be an offence , however , not to assist strangers , injured or in acute danger , where an obvious remedy is at hand such as pulling someone from wreckage or issuing a warning . |
| 9 | Preparing to bargain , particularly when a great deal is at stake , is a sound management investment . |
| 10 | Quite clearly , some principle of dynastic succession is at work . |
| 11 | Leith is at present a producer in the BBC ( Bristol ) . |
| 12 | A large aerogenerator programme is at present underway in the Netherlands where it is hoped that wind will be supplying about one quarter of Dutch electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | ‘ One thing that comes to mind is at kindergarten , though . |
| 14 | If none occurs , the defender is at liberty to strike at will . |
| 15 | ‘ I will see whether Master Lorimer is at home , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ My whole future is at stake . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Our little sister 's future is at stake ! ’ |
| 18 | If those no longer exist , its own future is at risk . |
| 19 | ‘ Darlington 's future is at risk from a Government that simply will not act to end this slump , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Clearly , more than simple apprenticeship is at issue here . |
| 21 | According to Habermas , the very distinction between theory and practice is at root a social rather than epistemological one . |
| 22 | Top army college is at risk from terrorists say villagers found in a gypsy camp . |
| 23 | By explicitly identifying categories of corporations like the Fortune 500 , they also convey the impression that a qualitatively new force is at work in the global system . |
| 24 | The Enemy is at work , and our first task as Christians as we confront our adversary in the Great Battle for the modern world is to identify his strategies . |
| 25 | The same effect is at work in all these examples : aerodynamic lift deriving from the ball 's rotation acts either vertically , affecting range , or sideways , affecting curve . |
| 26 | Almost all of the radioactive material associated with the nuclear industry is at present in the reactors and in spent fuel or in well-contained fractions separated from the fuel during the reprocessing operations . |
| 27 | A Board of Trade Memo in 1940 was to remark on Maxwell 's notoriety for ‘ pursuing a policy with which the rest of the industry is at variance , but bitter personal experience lay behind his low-level ambition . |
| 28 | That great advance in the standard of living is at risk in this election . |
| 29 | The best action is at night . |
| 30 | Also it seems that if the plaintiff 's first action is at risk of being struck out for want of prosecution , it is not an abuse of the process of the court to issue a second writ as there has been no disobedience of a peremptory order of the court ( Bailey v Bailey [ 1984 ] RTR 167 ) . |