Example sentences of "is [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |
| 2 | We were invited to spend it with Bill and Claire , who have a small farm about 15 miles outside Invercargill ( which is right at the bottom of the South Island ) . |
| 3 | The model I had on test was the five door two litre Ghia , which is right at the top of the saloon range , selling for £17,450 . |
| 4 | Ah well if , if that 's right then Mao is right at the beginning where , where he 's making his , his sort of extravagant statements about the mighty storm . |
| 5 | Taking one of William Rees-Mogg 's conclusions further , is it not logical to deduce that while ‘ Italy is the cradle of European civilisation ’ , Tuscany is right at the centre of it . |
| 6 | The inherent and deeply charged contradictions of a culturally threadbare working-class politics having such a richly threaded , but essentially unpolitical base , is right at the heart of the problems facing strategists of class liberation ’ |
| 7 | That , I believe , is the real test of our fellowship and is right at the heart of what it means to be a responsible member of a Baptist church practising as we do the principle of congregational government . |
| 8 | The only front that the Cavalry commanders can see is right at the end of the valley where the main Russian army is massively assembled , secure behind their heavy guns . |
| 9 | ‘ Claudia 's dress is right at the end — I shall have plenty of time . ’ |
| 10 | Vauxhall 's Director at Ellesmere Port , Nick Reilly , told assembled workers , journalists and worldwide representatives of parent company , General Motors : ‘ This engine plant at Ellesmere Port is right at the front of worldwide competition and with the team we have here it will stay there . ’ |
| 11 | Vauxhall 's director at Ellesmere Port , Nick Reilly , told assembled workers , journalists and worldwide representatives of parent company General Motors : ‘ This engine plant at Ellesmere Port is right at the front of worldwide competition , and with the team we have here it will stay there . ’ |
| 12 | But the time to plan the final report is right at the start . |
| 13 | I tend to have a lot of sausage and bacon because it 's easier and my time is somewhat at a premium with around a dozen cattle to care for . |
| 14 | The temperatures deeper into Jupiter will certainly not fall below 170 K. Thus , although the measured value of 170 K is only at a pressure of 1 bar , the pressure-temperature path on the molecular hydrogen phase-diagram as we descend to higher pressures never crosses the line ending at the critical-point . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | Cashier services are under more and more pressure and , although sometimes they are given assistance , it is only at the expense of other work . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | It is only at the end of the term of copyright that what has been protected passes into the public domain . |
| 24 | It is only at the end of the poem that Mariana finally despairs at the realisation that her lover will not come . |
| 25 | The balance should then be forwarded direct to the hotel , though if contacted some hotels do not require full payment in advance — this is entirely at the hotel 's discretion . |
| 26 | The timing of the elections is entirely at the discretion of interim president , Mr Matyas Szueros . |
| 27 | This is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
| 28 | The contents of the Church of Scotland ceremony and where it is to be held is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
| 29 | However the best delineation of Tolkien 's new model of courage is perhaps at the end of Book IV chapter 8 , ‘ The Stairs of Cirith Ungol ’ . |
| 30 | Robert Maidment is away at the moment editing a video . |