Example sentences of "be at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the distance is too far by road , it is impossible to be at both the start and the finish of the race unless you are actually taking part . |
| 2 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 3 | It would have to be at least , erm , what would it have to be , it would have to be at least the benefit , yes , the benefit would have to be at least four on the , on the B's side , in order for that to work . |
| 4 | Because there are , I do n't know how many sites Tarmac run , but there must be at least the number of sites that they 've ever run divided by two standard ways of planning , Tarmac . |
| 5 | There is a guarantee the return after five years will be at least the amount of the original investment . |
| 6 | A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured . |
| 7 | There were at least the photographs to fall back on . |
| 8 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 9 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |
| 10 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 11 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 12 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 13 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 14 | There is a fundamental ambiguity , however , in the protagonist 's relation to language : the levelling of meaning and the abolition of distinction is at once the device used by parody and the effect it attacks . |
| 15 | Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration . |
| 16 | b ) contain a training component which is at least the equivalent of YTS standard . |
| 17 | b ) contain a training component which is at least the equivalent of YTS standard . |
| 18 | b ) contain a training component which is at least the equivalent of YTS standard . |
| 19 | With the United Nations there is at least the opportunity to start , to work together in new ways on issues that really matter . |
| 20 | Now , one can not have what I have called a ‘ would-be belief ’ that something is x unless there is at least the possibility of taking the thing to be x . |
| 21 | While this may not mean they are preventable , there is at least the possibility of fortifying the individual against their effects . |
| 22 | Some ( often analysts ) would argue that if more information is included there is at least the potential to meet everyone 's needs ; if information is restricted it is certain that some people will not have what they want . |
| 23 | On installation however , Unix is again ahead , and is at least the equal of NT in intra-family portability , an area in which Microsoft 's superiority would normally be assumed . |
| 24 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
| 25 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 26 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 27 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |
| 28 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 29 | When the Popular Front , including the French Communist Party , came to power in France in June 1936 there was at least the hope that , by their actions , significant improvements , political as well as economic and social , might be achieved in Vietnam . |
| 30 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |