Example sentences of "[noun] [is] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 2 | It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism . |
| 3 | That bid is at the final stage of its examination and I expect to be able to make an announcement soon . |
| 4 | Buying something like a car is at the other end of the spectrum from holding cash . |
| 5 | Do two passes of the carriage to read the cams and then , when the carriage is at the opposite side to the point cam ( in this case on the right ) , move the left point cam back to its position on the right of the N1 cam . |
| 6 | After that , move the point cam to its correct position when the carriage is at the opposite side to the cam being moved . |
| 7 | We mention also that once the vehicle is at the managing director 's home , no private use is made of it whatsoever . |
| 8 | Lunch is at the historic Culloden House Hotel . |
| 9 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 10 | Spelling is at the very heart of information technology but , so far in IT Year , it has been largely ignored . |
| 11 | The difference between ( 77 ) and ( 78 ) is not the same difficulty we met earlier , in the ambiguity of : ( 79 ) The cat is behind the car where behind can have either a deictic usage ( i.e. the car intervenes between the cat and the speaker 's location ) , or a non-deictic usage ( i.e. the cat is at the intrinsic rear-end of the car ) . |
| 12 | Erm when the sun 's at the hottest anyway it 's sheltered it only gets , oh and the other thing is , you , er it , it does n't say here but you 're supposed to , it 's supposed to be somewhere where they 'll be sheltered from the early morning sun if there 's been |
| 13 | CPU : with a CPU performance rating of 111.45 , this machine is at the top end of the performance scales . |
| 14 | Review by Keith Thompson LIKE it or loathe it , Victorian Music Hall is at the very root of modern British mainstream comedy . |
| 15 | Data integration is especially a problem for geographers because information synthesis is at the very heart of the discipline . |
| 16 | If we compare the height of A , B , and C , shown below , we can see that B is at the same time linked with A , which it follows and C that it precedes , and the three are ordered in sequence : A , B , C. B is , at the same time , taller than A and shorter than C. |
| 17 | We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it . |
| 18 | The difference is at the very heart of the plot . |
| 19 | Just under 10 miles south-west of St Jean , on the Brouage road , St-Savinien is at the upper limit of the tidal reaches of the Charente . |
| 20 | Scum … aside from the ( hopefully short ) european distraction — their confidence is at the highest . |
| 21 | Christians would claim that this parable is at the very heart of the meaning of prayer . |
| 22 | If the product is at the introductory stage , a considerable amount of resources will be put into advertising . |
| 23 | The next section will indicate the value of a teacher 's comment or direct intervention is at the relevant time within the activity . |
| 24 | They believe the garden centre business is at the same stage of development as DIY was a decade ago . |
| 25 | Although the virtually monosyllabic Palance is at the receiving end of much of Crystal 's sophisticated comic patter , the Marlboro Man is the real philosophical hero of the place , a creature who has honed his life down to one simple idea . |
| 26 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 27 | But the real source of interplay is at the inner , formative levels of Mind and life . |
| 28 | Lucy Lane is at the local nick taking over the paper work . |
| 29 | Granting a Sunderland council application for him to be sent to the unit , the magistrates at the Family Court hearing in the city said : ‘ It is unfortunate … the nearest placement is at the opposite end of the country . ’ |
| 30 | Granting a Sunderland council application for him to be sent to the unit , the magistrates at the Family Court hearing in the city said : ‘ It is unfortunate … the nearest placement is at the opposite end of the country . ’ |