Example sentences of "[be] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All were to be at equal expense for the working of the mine . |
| 2 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 3 | A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that management can provide alternative more attractive forms of work organisation but these may be at higher cost . |
| 4 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 5 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 6 | The first month of the pool starts on April 4th and thereafter someone will be at each Mass to collect subscriptions . |
| 7 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 8 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 9 | Any minute now and they 'll be at each other 's throats again . |
| 10 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 11 | All translations , on this approach , would be at best approximations . |
| 12 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 13 | Training for nurse prescribing is likely to be at post-basic level . |
| 14 | Women taking atenolol appeared to be at lower risk of lung cancer , but the number of deaths was small and confidence intervals wide . |
| 15 | The brightly-coloured males may be at greater risk than the dowdy females . |
| 16 | Typically , these are long-term , follow-up investigations of the children of known schizophrenics — and therefore chosen because , on purely genetic grounds , they should be at greater risk . |
| 17 | If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture . |
| 18 | Compensation both for planning restrictions ( in cases where a claim had been admitted ) and for compulsory purchase by public authorities was to be paid on the basis of existing use plus any admitted 1947 development value , but private sales would be at current market prices . |
| 19 | Faecal occult blood testing is the only realistic method available today for periodic screening of people deemed to be at average risk of colorectal cancer . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got to be at X Baths . ’ |
| 21 | Generous though the offer seemed to be at first sight , it was in American interests to acquire missile sites in Britain to bring the Soviet Union within range of American attack . |
| 22 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 23 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 24 | But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight . |
| 25 | If we try again it will be at first light with a photographer and no-one else present or maybe with just ourselves present . |
| 26 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 27 | This must be at one end of the housing , clear of the other compartments , and then you will be able to slide the glass off this compartment without sliding it off the others . |
| 28 | Last Thursday , he said on television : ’ If that convergence is not achieved then the establishment of a ( single ) currency could be a tremendous dislocation and be at tremendous cost . ’ |
| 29 | All the activities will be at Imperial College and the South Kensington Scientific Museums . |
| 30 | Canon can also be at other intervals , as mentioned in Variation 5 of ‘ Von Himmel hoch ’ , above , but in tonal music the most usual interval , apart from the unison and octave , is canon at the 5th above or the 4th below . |