Example sentences of "[be] at [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the distance is too far by road , it is impossible to be at both the start and the finish of the race unless you are actually taking part . |
| 2 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 3 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 4 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 5 | All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats . |
| 6 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 7 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 8 | ( Each abacus bead will be at either the left or the right of the abacus wire . ) |
| 9 | The Christian painting may be at once a holy picture and a convincing representation of a woman tenderly cradling her son , seen in front of a north Italian landscape . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 12 | The 1989 total is likely to be at least a third higher . |
| 13 | Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands . |
| 14 | However , as he posted his letter on Monday , he has been caught in the suspension trap , and it could be at least a month , before there is any prospect of seeing his money . |
| 15 | Herein lies the problem : the wood needs to be of a species for which there is a ‘ master chronology ’ ( see p. 125 ) and there must normally be at least a hundred tree rings in the sample to be dated to ensure a unique match with the master pattern . |
| 16 | John Sluggett , who farms near Probus , mid-Cornwall , says he will be at least a week before starting on winter barley . |
| 17 | Violet , watching the tall negress , a bold haughty bearing ; she appeared the star attraction out of all the women — and there must , all smoking , posing , rude as the renaissance , be at least a hundred whores — wondered ( such a rate , turnover ) at the money in her handbag . |
| 18 | And may this book be at least a small stepping-stone on your way . |
| 19 | But if we can sometimes lift our eyes from our own problems and focus on those of others , it will be at least a step in the right direction and Christmas is a good time to take it , ’ she said . |
| 20 | For the responses to be regarded as in any way representative of the views of the congregation , there should be at least a seventy-five per cent response rate . |
| 21 | There must however be at least a suspicion that — as with the languages of Middle-earth — he created a structure of thought to justify a more primary urge , delight in language , delight in ancient story . |
| 22 | To my mind the answer is that there must always be at least a minimum of skill for us to speak of an artistic achievement . |
| 23 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 24 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 25 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 26 | It is not unusual for the sea to be at least a mile 's walk from the coastline sand-dunes . |
| 27 | What we mean … is that the probability of the person 's having an accident is high , and his own mariner of driving will be at least a partial cause of the accident . |
| 28 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 29 | Where an instrumental ensemble is employed , with or without singers , it is necessary that there be at least a leader , if not a conductor . |
| 30 | The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known , but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV . |