Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [is] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is most easily done after the third cleavage which is at right angles to the first two , and so divides the embryo into four animal and four vegetal cells . |
| 2 | But if the kernel of an individual , the higher Self , is the Ātman which is at one with Truth or God , then to inflict deliberate violence on another is to injure God or undermine Truth , and to cause suffering to another is to violate one 's higher Self or Ātman . |
| 3 | If you are caring for an elderly parent who is at some stage of grieving for a lost partner , whether she is experiencing the shattering despair that follows soon after bereavement , or the long sad loneliness and feeling of deprivation characteristic of its later stages , her deepest need will be for your practical and emotional support during her period of sorrow and adjustment . |
| 4 | He accused successive Education Secretaries of serving the UK poorly , listening only partially , and having ‘ an apparent determination to push through so-called reforms with a consultation process which is at best minimal and at worst cynical . ’ |
| 5 | 1.1 " the Landlord " includes the successors in title of the Landlord to the Site and any other person who is at any time entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on the term agreed to be granted by this agreement |
| 6 | There are in almost all animals two main axes , the antero-posterior which defines the ‘ head ’ and ‘ tail ’ ends and the dorso-ventral axis which is at right angles to it . |
| 7 | Do n't forget , those of you in Tuesday class , next week it 's at four P M and not two P M. |
| 8 | And Hopkins grins like a man who is at last easy in his skin . |
| 9 | Scudamore 's friend and partner Nigel Twiston Davies … he does n't like cameras … does n't do interviews … a man of mystery … but a man who 's at one with his world … |
| 10 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 11 | If he has any social reform plans , he should approach the Minister of Health who is at this very moment bringing to an end the old Poor Law … ’ |
| 12 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 13 | After years of medical doubt it is at last safe to say with conviction that an apple a day along with the other fibre-rich foods you will eat on the F-Plan does indeed keep the doctor away . |