Example sentences of "[is] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |
| 2 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 3 | It is most at home in a coldwater tank , although it was popular in tropical tanks before the wide range of plants we have now was available . |
| 4 | Ostensibly a social misfit , he is most at home with his new books , old records and middle-aged pet Labrador . |
| 5 | It is here that the ability of banks to pull off mergers successfully is most at question . |
| 6 | And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking . |
| 7 | Of course , it is the active , more independent person who is most at risk of falling , and it has to be borne in mind that the prevention of all falls is not an appropriate objective in the care of elderly people . |
| 8 | It is this which is most at risk in children with limited hearing . |
| 9 | The crime survey carried out in Islington , by contrast , is designed to be explanatory and to predict who is most at risk ( Jones , Maclean , and Young 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Who 's most at risk ? |
| 11 | The fact/belief divide is powerfully at work today as for example the debate on the original National Curriculum proposals with regard to the teaching of history and geography has amply attested . |
| 12 | Having said that , however , I have to say that from a Christian point of view the Hayekian ( or Friedmanian ) system is fundamentally at variance with what I conceive of as a Christian view of reality . |
| 13 | Er , and I did have er , somebody who came up about a year ago , and , and said do you talk to all your clients like this , and I said no , no it 's only at Tarmac . |
| 14 | The idea of the organism ; the notion that organisms need to process energy to stay intact ; the appreciation that selection is constantly at work , favouring the best adapted — these are the fundamentals to keep in mind in all studies of ecology . |
| 15 | The contempt for Asian culture , the constant shadow of racial hostility and the disregard for family and group identity provide an atmosphere in which Izzat is constantly at risk and therefore is constantly charged and recharged . |
| 16 | It seems that the Third Law of Aerodynamics is especially at work in this case . |
| 17 | Part one of the book considers ‘ What can go wrong ’ and ‘ How systems fail ’ , noting that the energy system is especially at risk . |
| 18 | Not too much should be read into this kind of loose terminology , since it is greatly at variance with the vocabulary customarily employed by Soviet diplomats , officials and academics . |
| 19 | 1956 saw him complaining that the author of an article on ‘ Christian Social Thought ’ had used the word ‘ sociology ’ so that ‘ unless my memory is greatly at fault , Durkheim and Lévy-Bruhl ’ would be excluded from its province . |
| 20 | The CC is greatly at fault to have ignored this . |
| 21 | He offers his own experiences to support Tommy Dewar 's maxim that ‘ The Scotch whisky distiller is only at home when he is abroad ’ . |
| 22 | Many of these factors can be deduced or estimated from surviving archaeological evidence , but other factors — such as size of population , whether farming is only at subsistence level or is producing a surplus , and if so , how large a surplus — are much more difficult to assess . |
| 23 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |
| 24 | For the belief that ‘ there is no occasion too small ’ is naturally at home in a society that resists any ranking of certain human and civic occasions below or above certain others . |
| 25 | It returns to the sea to lay its eggs , but otherwise it is entirely at home on land . |
| 26 | The Ariston CD3 is , in the end , just another player , and although I have tried to highlight its special attributes , there will be listeners and systems for and with which the Ariston is less at home than it was here on test . |
| 27 | They are particularly disposed to frighten or harm a wicked child ; a well-behaved one is less at risk . |
| 28 | SOME SORT OF MOVEMENT is obviously at work to provide Sîan Phillips with plays even more atrocious than her acting . |
| 29 | As Katharine is away at university , she has very little time to ride . |
| 30 | Eleven-year old Samantha , their daughter , is away at school during term time , but Pauline keeps busy with a succession of visitors from all parts of the globe . |