Example sentences of "[be] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change is unlikely to help heal relations between Downing Street and France , reported to be at an all-time low . |
| 2 | The findings from this study , taken together with those of Gardner et al , suggest that the children of certain men who are monitored for exposure to external ionising radiation in the nuclear industry might be at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 3 | How then should we manage these patients who are known to be at an increased rick of developing cancer ? |
| 4 | In the previous section we mentioned that the programmer using fixed-point binary format could consider the binary point to be at an appropriate position in the word for each item of data . |
| 5 | Some of the changes have been suggested because individual modules are thought to be at an appropriate level . |
| 6 | For council staff , already weary from last years round of cuts , moral is now said to be at an all time low . |
| 7 | Talks were said to be at an advanced stage and ‘ going well ’ . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if Chemical did hand back the plane to Boeing , it would be at an effective cost to Virgin of a further $10m — the amount by which the plane 's value had increased in the time Virgin had owned it . |
| 9 | The package has to be at an inclusive price covering more than 24 hours , or including an overnight stay . |
| 10 | An SBU with high capital intensity could well be at an early stage of its product life-cycle , when one would expect it to be building up its investment relative to sales and also experiencing low profitability as it fights to establish itself in the market . |
| 11 | However , if UK rules are more stringent or more restrictive than French rules , the branch would be at an immediate competitive disadvantage against its local competition . |
| 12 | On the IBM 360 range restrictions are placed on which sets of consecutive bytes may be considered to form a word-oriented unit ; thus the left-hand byte of a half-word must be at an even address , that of a full-word must be at an address divisible by four , and so on . |
| 13 | No longer will Northumberland farmers be at an artificial competitive or financial disadvantage . |
| 14 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |