Example sentences of "[be] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
| 2 | The change is unlikely to help heal relations between Downing Street and France , reported to be at an all-time low . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How then should we manage these patients who are known to be at an increased rick of developing cancer ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some of the changes have been suggested because individual modules are thought to be at an appropriate level . |
| 7 | For council staff , already weary from last years round of cuts , moral is now said to be at an all time low . |
| 8 | Talks were said to be at an advanced stage and ‘ going well ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The package has to be at an inclusive price covering more than 24 hours , or including an overnight stay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I think , ’ Rory said , ‘ it 's called being at an awkward age . ’ |
| 16 | Accountants Ernst & Young , which is handling the sale , said negotiations were at an advanced stage . |
| 17 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 18 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 19 | Firstly Burmin , the company exploring Croagh Patrick , were at an advanced stage of prospecting : the company had said it had found ‘ an extensive gold-bearing structure ’ and ‘ an economic deposit ’ . |
| 20 | When , for example , some weaving households were at an adverse point in their family cycles , they might welcome the chance to work longer hours than the typical factory shift . |
| 21 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 22 | At the time of writing , Prudential 's shares were at an all time high , which might serve to back up Mr Lawrence 's point . |
| 23 | Fifty three respondents thought that British business travellers were at an increased risk of acquiring HIV infection through heterosexual contact abroad . |
| 24 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 25 | Cable & Wireless said that the talks were at an early stage . |
| 26 | The issue , which had allowed successive governments to mobilize national sentiment , had surfaced at a time when Serrano 's popularity ratings were at an all-time low . |
| 27 | Overuse can lead to pollution , declining groundwater levels and , eventually , to trouble of one sort or another ; internecine feuds were reported in southern Spain in the summer of 1983 when river levels were at an all-time low . |
| 28 | They were at an opposite pole from the self-important , vacuous management . |
| 29 | The three independent directors on the Saga board said last night that they had noted the possible offer , adding that discussions ‘ are at an early stage ’ and a further announcement would be made ‘ as soon as practicable ’ . |
| 30 | The negotiations are at an early stage , but they seem extremely interested in what we have to offer and have given us plenty of encouragement . ’ |