Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional peoples in the world today , such as the Australian aborigines , are profoundly and naturally psychic and it is at least reasonable therefore to speculate that the ancient peoples were similarly sensitive , and would have been aware of earth energies as a natural part of their environment . |
| 2 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 3 | The fact that the US was canvassing support from other Asian states would very likely have been known to the Russians and Chinese ; and it is at least conceivable that this fact influenced their own decision . |
| 4 | Though Banfield 's research is partially accurate if read merely as description , it does not explain fully the lack of concerted action by those excluded from privilege , and it is at least misleading , if not inaccurate , in its neglect of the pre-modern political organisation of these areas , which is based on personal patronage networks centred on landholders . |
| 5 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 6 | We do not suggest he would be the right Labour leader , but he is at least an honest and fearlessly outspoken politician . ’ |
| 7 | But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source . |
| 8 | It may not be possible now to reorganise the power industry to sell services , rather than energy , but it is at least possible to plan in terms of the uses to which the energy must be put . |
| 9 | But it is at least necessary to start Mary 's story on the morning of Tuesday , 12th January 1937 , when she was fifteen years old . |
| 10 | We would be the last to advocate wholesale belief in the utterances of governments , but it is at least possible that these protestations are sincere . |
| 11 | On the whole Hercules is rather a barren constellation , but it is at least graced by the presence of these two splendid globulars . |
| 12 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 13 | It is a dismal and discomfiting picture , but it is at least a ‘ natural ’ one . |
| 14 | But it is at least interesting that there seems to be this level shift problem embedded within physics itself . |
| 15 | But it is at least possible to imagine circumstances in which a ruling or decision of the panel might give rise to legitimate complaint . |
| 16 | But it is at least possible that one or more of the investors might want to keep the shares for whatever remote speculative value the shares might have . |
| 17 | The exact meaning of the word in relation to the status of the early civitas capitals is also still unresolved , but it is at least clear that we are dealing with a unit which enjoyed some measure of self-government . |
| 18 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 19 | The analysis for parameter values near point X is much harder , involving elements of all the other analyses mentioned so far , but it is at least possible to confirm that Fig. 6.2 is qualitatively correct { 11 } . |
| 20 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |