Example sentences of "[pers pn] is at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 2 | ‘ Zoe is a virgin and she 'll stay that way until she is at least 16 — and even longer if she wants to . ’ |
| 3 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 4 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting . |
| 6 | The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally . |
| 7 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
| 8 | But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But when we move from Einhard to the Christian ideal of rule in general , it is at once necessary to point out an important fact about Christianity : that its book , the Bible , consists of two Testaments , which are very different from each other in ethic . |
| 11 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Examining this structure with the eye of an engineer it is at once evident that very little of the stiffness of the carbon — carbon chain will be reflected in the macroscopic modulus of the plastic since the bonds which control the extension are not the covalent primary bonds but the secondary or van der Waal forces which attach the convolutions of the chain to each other . |
| 14 | It is at once clear from Fig. 2 that the long- and middle-wave cones of the primate retina do not form the regular , systematically alternating array that has sometimes been postulated . |
| 15 | It is at once an amusing and instructive exercise in the power of communicating . |
| 16 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 19 | It is at once apparent that the McKinsey-GE matrix has much less definite measurements for its axes . |
| 20 | It is at once clear from Figure 5.2 that the PFM graph is a different shape from those of the three planets , which are broadly similar to each other . |
| 21 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 22 | ‘ It is at once the most absorbing and frustrating of professions , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 24 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 25 | If Soren Kierkegaard vitiated the easy-going philosophical idealism of his day with his heavily personalised challenges to it ; if von Rochau brought in the concept of Realpolitik to Bismarck 's Germany ; and if Karl Barth ushered in ‘ Crisis Theology ’ in Switzerland ; it is at least arguable that Irving Layton fathered ‘ Crisis Poetry ’ in Canada : poetry that demanded a decision , a response ; that cut through the emollient patter and posed a rough demand on the reader or hearer . |
| 26 | Opponents of membership , such as the Prime Minister , argue that whatever the right level of entry it is at least necessary to reduce inflation to the European average of roughly 3-4 per cent . |
| 27 | Now it is at least as well supported as the ST , and its advantages are finally starting to count . |
| 28 | It is at least worth a footnote to any textbook on handling disputes that few employers have to contend with their management arm solemnly sitting down and condemning the negotiating strategy and then publicly relating their views to the press . |
| 29 | But , when they get down to business with the British , it is at least certain that they will not be as difficult as Mr Haughey 's government was . |
| 30 | 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 . |