Example sentences of "[be] at [det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone , somewhere , figured out that a shapely , karate-dispensing ebony superwoman would n't be at all a bad idea . |
| 2 | Although it is rare for medieval finds to be at such a shallow depth in woodland , the ( amongst other finds ) proves that the older objects can be recovered . |
| 3 | and it 's likely to be at half a million a year , and the production will start in nineteen |
| 4 | ‘ Of those , at least 25,000 were at such a desperate level of starvation that they would have died had the food reached them any later . |
| 5 | ‘ They were at all the important functions in the area and Trevor 's action to save Cherry would have been automatic . |
| 6 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 7 | Although the availability of heroin on Wirral 's housing estates has varied considerably , supplies are at most a short rail or bus journey away . |
| 8 | Furthermore the designers are mainly concerned with lexical access , rather than speech recognition as a whole and the ‘ utterances ’ are at most a few words long . |
| 9 | Never before has the nation 's mood and morale been at such a low ebb , never before such a vote of no confidence in the country , writes Rob Brown |
| 10 | The attraction of such films lies apparently in the offer of illicit sexual pleasure to men whose sexual confidence is at such a low ebb as to make them unlikely or unable to resist . |
| 11 | ‘ Milk cow Blues Boogie ’ ( 1955 ) is perhaps the best example since the techniques are so well integrated , though Elvis 's treatment of the song is at such a quick tempo that the operation of the techniques themselves is less clear than in ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ . |
| 12 | Probably not , but it , it is , it is at such an early stage that I 'm not at all sure what advertising you say to speak , can be made of it . |
| 13 | That the focusing preference here is at most a weak one is shown by the fact that in both cases , the wrong reading is still plausible , so the decision must be made on comparative , not absolute , grounds . |
| 14 | With the stimulus parameters usually employed to produce LTP , the duration of PTP is at most a few minutes . |
| 15 | Since the approximation is of the fourth degree the second derivative is at most a quadratic . |
| 16 | What is more , a Tertiary stage looks very much like a zone through Mesozoic eyes , and with Palaeozoic spectacles a Jurassic stage is at most an Ordovician zone . |
| 17 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 18 | It was amazing how little the money was at such a famous and unbelievably well-supported club . |
| 19 | There were three possible air-launched solutions : the US Air Force 's Skybolt , which could be modified to fit the V-bombers ; a simpler British ‘ ram jet ’ , called Pandora , suitable for the TSR 2 , whose development was at such an early stage that costs could only be guessed ; and further development of the existing Blue Steel stand-off bomb on which work had been stopped after the Sandys Defence Review . |