Example sentences of "it is [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that the Soviet economy is at an impasse , but we have tried to suggest that it is not at the abyss . |
| 2 | Since it is not at the moment clear how general this type of sociolinguistic pattern might be , any attempt at explanation is premature ; however , it is probably possible to relate the narrow range characteristic of the higher-status speakers ' pattern to parallel structural tendencies in languages which have undergone processes of standardization ( Milroy and Milroy 1985a , chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 3 | In the case of Sunday trading , it is not at the moment clear , because of the House of Lords ' ruling , what the law may be . |
| 4 | Even with the property market at its height — I do not need to remind the House that it is not at the height at the moment — British Rail would not be able to cover the £1.4 billion capital cost out of its profit from property development or out of revenue from running the trains . |
| 5 | His words were echoed by Kay Kirkham , Stockton South Liberal Democrat candidate : ‘ We want to bring health in general back under democratic control which it is not at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't at the house , ’ he said , looking at each of the men in turn . |
| 7 | Well it is n't at the moment . |
| 8 | In the border zone camps the situation is very much more grim ; er there is an acute shortage of water although the Jordanians are trucking water in 24 hours a day , it is n't at the moment , enough to keep those camps going . |
| 9 | Ironically , it is just at the organizational level that ideas of deterrence , incapacitation , rehabilitation , and restitution to the community and the offended gain this season 's attractive fashionable glow . |
| 10 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 11 | The State is not defending its teachers : it is already at the beck and call of reaction and fascism , obediently acquiescing and taking sanctions . |
| 12 | Some suggestions a that membership should be mandatory for those holding R Y A positions and appointments , well , that is certainly up for future debate but I do look forward to the day when our membership is truly representative at the individual level as it is currently at the club level and we w should n't forget that the R Y A is its membership . |
| 13 | ‘ The state it is in at the moment has limited our work a great deal , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is always at the mercy of the people who design and use it . |
| 15 | It is precisely at the level of symbolism that , feminists are saying , the Christian story has harmed women . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 17 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 18 | And far from showing that the couple is going out of fashion in France , he feels his research demonstrates that it is still at the centre of people 's dreams . |
| 19 | It is almost at the level of cliché to make the point that education at school is , outside the family , the most important means by which children are socialised . |
| 20 | It is ironically at the points at which Lévi-Strauss and Barthes transgress ‘ structuralism ’ that their work is most successful ; when they produce inspired accounts of the hidden meanings of cultural forms that have been taken for granted . |
| 21 | It is now at the head of the queue when the future of the building is considered . |
| 22 | It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ . |
| 23 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |
| 24 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 25 | It is only at the end of a session when creativity is exhausted that the results are subjected to criticism and appraisal and an attempt is made to analyse what has been suggested . |
| 26 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
| 27 | It is only at the foot of the aircraft steps , with the propellers starting to down out his protests , that Leonard discovers that Maria will not be coming with him to London . |
| 28 | It is only at the end of the term of copyright that what has been protected passes into the public domain . |
| 29 | Fael-Inis continued to play without ceasing , and the music spun and shivered and soothed , and across the slanting features there was a look of the utmost concentration now , for it is only at the invitation of a Mortal that the Lad of the Skins can enter a house and do his terrible work . |
| 30 | Cashier services are under more and more pressure and , although sometimes they are given assistance , it is only at the expense of other work . |