Example sentences of "[det] [noun] be at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 2 | In fact , neither side was at first attempting to reach the defensive flank of the North Sea ; rather , each was hastening to get around the enemy 's northern flank in the only area where mobile warfare was still possible on the Western Front . |
| 3 | As far as BSL is concerned , virtually everyone who learns some signs is at some stage called upon to interpret by a deaf person , and this is most likely to be from English into BSL . |
| 4 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 5 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 6 | For the current system this neighbourhood is at most five words long . |
| 7 | Some investment is at last being made in south Wales in that respect . |
| 8 | Rivers have been restored to healthy levels and , more importantly , this rain is at last reaching the water-permeable rocks deep underground . |
| 9 | ‘ It is emphasised that this paper is at fundamental level , and will be set and marked accordingly . |
| 10 | The books that follow this pattern are at first sight attractive , ideal for ‘ face-on ’ displays , and can even seem to have some serious purpose . |
| 11 | The British Steel example suggests that this belief is at best doubtful . |
| 12 | This puzzle was at last unravelled in a series of brilliant papers of a rather technical and mathematical nature by the English geneticist and entomologist William Hamilton ( 1964 , 1971a , b , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | This account is at best naive and at worst apologetic for the behaviour of the Organization 's largest member — the United States . |
| 14 | On the point of secrecy , some information was at last released , but with insufficient hard financial data for opponents of schemes to interpret it clearly . |
| 15 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 16 | Except in the southeast corner , the properties in this unit are at right angles to the north-south road , and the overall rectilinear arrangement of the plan is clear . |
| 17 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 18 | Some ministers were at first embarrassed at what they regarded as her ‘ preaching ’ and ‘ moralizing ’ but in the end accepted it as part of the Thatcher style . |
| 19 | Revolutionary theories may be accepted or discarded , but least cognisance is at taken of them and of what preceded them . |
| 20 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 21 | Possibly the best way of talking through such matters is at local branch meetings . |
| 22 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 23 | However , such sentences are at best marginal in English . |
| 24 | The scientific underpinning of such an idea is necessarily speculative , but that is far from saying that it is a nonsense : such clouds are at least as complex , in terms of interacting molecules , as human beings . |
| 25 | The formula for both these jocular comments is similar : in the midst of a conversation which has continued for at least two turns in London English , a speaker introduces a turn which ends in Creole ( typically such turns are at most one sentence long , and wholly in Creole ) . |
| 26 | This need not , however , suggest ( as Saunders sometimes does indeed imply ) that owner-occupation is at all times and in all places an optimum means of gaining control over one 's own life . |
| 27 | These patterns are at one and the same time both common-place and elusive . |
| 28 | Serum aminoglycoside concentrations should be assayed in all patients with renal impairment , patients receiving other nephrotoxic agents , elderly patients , and patients who have recently received aminoglycosides , since these groups are at increased risk of toxic side effects . |
| 29 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 30 | As the HIV epidemic continues to spread , particularly rapidly in Africa and Asia , newly arrived immigrants from these areas are at particular risk of coinfection with HIV and tuberculosis . |