Example sentences of "[adj] be at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’ |
| 2 | This is at the crux of one of the two major criticisms which Parkin ( 1971 ) makes of the functionalist theory . |
| 3 | But this is at the level of nationalist discourse . |
| 4 | And then they get er D I Y pack which these two I know you saw that before but this is at the back of it . |
| 5 | Although this is at the bottom of the main menu , it is the first option that you need to select before you can begin to use the program for any serious work . |
| 6 | This is at the judge 's discretion ( Ord 21 , r 6(1) with opportunity for the parties to be present . |
| 7 | This is at the heart of Wittgenstein 's criticism of St Augustine 's account : it is ‘ as if the child could already think , only not yet speak ’ ( PI 32 ) ; as if it were learning , not its native language , but a subsequent one . |
| 8 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 9 | This is at the heart of UNCED 's Agenda 21 , the European Community 's Fifth Action Programme and the UK Government 's Environment White Paper . |
| 10 | He/she will tell you how much this is at the beginning so you know at the start how much you have to pay . |
| 11 | This is at the beginning of the Malvinas trouble . |
| 12 | However , this is at the expense of a new problem of economically providing , on the lowest model in the range , all the hardware facilities needed on models at the upper end of the range . |
| 13 | More meaningful results are obtained by producing budgetary accounts that are classified in a way which is specific to the particular service but this is at the expense of a uniform format for budgetary accounting . |
| 14 | Compared with a Butterworth filter of the same order , the cut-off may be steeper near the cut-off frequency but this is at the expense of slightly oscillating transmission in the pass band . |
| 15 | This is at the root of your disagreement with the radicals then ? |
| 16 | Certainly this is at the root of what Stephen Potter considered to be the " dispiriting preconceptions " with which academic English shackled the literary muse . |
| 17 | There 's Toby this is at the zoo was it ? |
| 18 | This is at the north-west of the island and is probably the furthest village from Funchal . |
| 19 | Well this week has the shortest day before the end of the year so light is at the premium and erm I would wash the glass quite often now of the glasshouse and greenhouse because er especially the outside to remove any of that winter grime that 's collected and let some light into those plants . |
| 20 | And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely . |
| 21 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 22 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 23 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 24 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 25 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |
| 26 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 27 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 28 | ‘ This was at the Palace ? ’ |
| 29 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 30 | Where they tended to go wrong was at the micro rather than at the macro level : a mishandling of the relationship between parts rather than the parts themselves . |