Example sentences of "to be at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , is the deemed subletting to be at a fixed rent or at a rent subject to review ? |
| 2 | Soon he hopes to be at a new home in a different area , where he hopes to be able to live his life in peace . |
| 3 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 4 | It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start . |
| 5 | This project has three objectives : to investigate how accurately parents and their adolescent children can predict each other 's thinking over complex moral and social problems ; to assess whether the degree of such accuracy is related to the nature and extent of parent-adolescent conflicts , and to test whether an individual at one level of cognitive development can describe the view of another person who is assumed to be at a higher level . |
| 6 | Royal College of Nursing members at the hospital had expressed worry over possible job losses and morale was said to be at a low ebb . |
| 7 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 8 | yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go |
| 9 | Also , apart from legal considerations , in most situations , a seller who does not provide such a remedy is likely to be at a significant commercial disadvantage compared to his competitors , since the giving of such guarantees and warranties has really become standard commercial practice . |
| 10 | Whatever the price happens to be at a given time , and this can vary dramatically , it will be a price worth paying for some and not for others . |
| 11 | The job has to be at a senior enough level and it has to be constrained enough to enable the job to be searched . |
| 12 | it used to be at a different time of the year , though , did n't it ? |
| 13 | Bert , Alice was pleased to see , missed Jasper , tended to be at a loose end . |
| 14 | I just happened to know that Geoffrey was keen to meet you again , and you do seem to be at a loose end at the moment . |
| 15 | Flow rates in pressure filters are usually around 3 gal/min per ft2 ( 154.41. /min per m2 ) of filter surface area , whereas backwashing has to be at a high rate , usually 10 gal/min per ft2 ( 514.51. /min per m2 ) of bed area , for 5–10 min . |
| 16 | If there is , it has to be at a deeper level of thought and interaction than we have so far identified . |
| 17 | Moncef was thought to be at a secret location in Tunisia . |
| 18 | Educated women seem to be at a particular disadvantage because they are expected , and expect themselves , to accept the loss gracefully and suppress irrational feelings associated with a process which is not unlike mourning . |
| 19 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 20 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 21 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |
| 22 | In the previous section we mentioned that the programmer using fixed-point binary format could consider the binary point to be at an appropriate position in the word for each item of data . |
| 23 | Some of the changes have been suggested because individual modules are thought to be at an appropriate level . |
| 24 | The package has to be at an inclusive price covering more than 24 hours , or including an overnight stay . |
| 25 | How then should we manage these patients who are known to be at an increased rick of developing cancer ? |
| 26 | The change is unlikely to help heal relations between Downing Street and France , reported to be at an all-time low . |
| 27 | For council staff , already weary from last years round of cuts , moral is now said to be at an all time low . |
| 28 | Talks were said to be at an advanced stage and ‘ going well ’ . |