Example sentences of "are at " in BNC.

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1 This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant .
2 As a result there is now a large group who are at a similar stage of HIV infection at any one time .
3 Prejudices are challenged and myths exposed — for example that only homosexual men and drug users are at risk .
4 During their isolation , they are reportedly denied access to legal counsel and family visits and are at risk of systematic torture and ill-treatment .
5 Museums are at an advantage in making close examination of works in their own collections showing evidence about a picture , say , which can only be discovered by the newest scientific and technological methods .
6 They are at their clearest in the teachings of the appropriately named free presbyterians :
7 They are therefore predominantly sectarian in political religious form , and attempts to modify this sectarian structure are at the moment opposed mainly , though not exclusively , by the Irish Roman catholic clergy .
8 ‘ Then , Sergeant , ’ said the little old lady , ‘ your troubles are at an end . ’
9 Priorwood Gardens are at Melrose , Roxburghshire .
10 Plant up arrangements in bulb bowls and planters choosing bulbs which are at the same stage of development .
11 Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome .
12 Red roses that look vivid at midday seem to vanish as dusk falls , just when white flowers are at their most luminous .
13 Gooseberries , for example , can be picked for cooking or processing when they are still hard and green , flowers are often cut while still in bud and many roots or salad crops are at their most palatable when young and tender .
14 When pilots from a big , flat site visit a hill site , they are at risk and often make absolute fools of themselves unless they get a very thorough briefing and listen to what local pilots and instructors have to say .
15 The only safe solution is to get the gliders into the hangar before the squalls arrive , or to make sure that there are at least two people close to each glider all the time , ready to swing them round when necessary .
16 If you get a poor launch or something unexpected happens , you are at a great disadvantage and are likely to have a problem .
17 If you are one of those patients who are at greater risk from flu , you should try to avoid catching it .
18 A childminder is anybody who looks after children under 5 in her own home , usually while their parents are at work .
19 Jay had always said you know who you are at three a.m .
20 Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at .
21 These experiences are at once ineffable and a psychological bedrock beneath which we can not penetrate .
22 Yet another patient 's problems are at the level of the visual input lexicon itself .
23 If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework .
24 There are 18–20 on the staff in summer when up to 60 boys and girls are at the academy .
25 By the time you are achieving 50 and 100-shot rallies , you are at the stage where you can develop your play .
26 Steps are at last being taken to create a formal structure for checking the sources of sustainably managed tropical timber .
27 The converse of this can apply if your table heights are at different levels .
28 None of the joints are at right-angles .
29 Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times .
30 Or the moment can be an important point in an overall design to fill space , such as the moment in a grand jeté en avant when the dancer 's two legs are at an equal height from the ground and he or she appears to travel onwards effortlessly through space .
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