Example sentences of "is at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system should enable offenders with mental disorder to move quickly out of the courts and prison system to the most appropriate place for treatment , but in reality the system moves grudgingly slowly and in some parts is at a virtual standstill , leaving disturbed people in restrictive , unsuitable environments which are almost guaranteed to worsen their condition . |
| 2 | In this respect it is at a similar stage to the British initiative . |
| 3 | As the kite climbs up vertically from a launch , it starts with a steep angle to the wind , and at the peak of its climb is at a shallow angle . |
| 4 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 5 | One is at a total loss for words to express adequately how one really feels inside , you know . |
| 6 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 7 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 8 | Observation is at a certain point self-effacing ; interrogations cancel each other out . |
| 9 | Where selective logging is at a low density ( 10 stems per ha ) in Pahang , West Malaysia , infant mortality in all primates is greatly increased , perhaps because of injuries due to the female adults having to make greater leaps from crown to crown across gaps or abandonment in the face of human presence or possibly reduction in available food . |
| 10 | The rest of the circuit is at a low voltage and the design of the p.c.b . |
| 11 | The adventures of Someone , Something and their five children are a hallucination experienced by Larry while his body is at a low level of psychic energy . |
| 12 | He believes that training is insufficient at the plant and that morale is at a low ebb , largely because of the working environment and the ageing equipment . |
| 13 | The word is that morale is at a low ebb among university researchers in ‘ mainstream physics ’ . |
| 14 | There are three possibilities ; people can be lost through death ( which may be a high proportion in an elderly congregation located in a retirement area ) , transfer out ( high in an old community due for demolition , or where people move in search of employment or as they are relocated or promoted ) , or reversion ( may be high where the social pressure is hostile to the church , or where church morale is at a low ebb ) . |
| 15 | The sheep often use gravity to increase the force of their attack : a male that stands above another on a hillside is at a distinct advantage ; he can drop on to his opponent using the full weight of his body . |
| 16 | Accommodation at The Old Swan is at a special conference rate of £35 per night per person sharing or £45 for a single room . |
| 17 | If the solar System is at a special place , then the concept of terrestrial mediocrity ( that we are so ordinary the Universe at large must be just like our neighbourhood ) takes something of a knock . |
| 18 | However , all this is at a given level of effort ; the final stage of the manager 's problem is On equating this first-order condition to zero , using result ( 4.8 ) that unc we have : unc hence |
| 19 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 20 | Dean designate of the Academy in Berlin , Mansbach summarised the circumstances leading to the creation of the centre and its goals : ‘ Despite four decades of close relations with the Federal Republic of Germany and cooperation in many academic fields , there is no American research institution in Germany or Austria , while academic contact with former East Germany and Eastern Europe is at a formative stage . |
| 21 | A Nigerian politician who has no access to , or is not reported by , any news medium is at a grave disadvantage . |
| 22 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 23 | He is at a significant stage in his development , but has had an excellent domestic season and also performed well for England ‘ B ’ . |
| 24 | The house , which has 10 beds , is at a secret address and is funded mainly by the Children 's Society , a charity . |
| 25 | FIG. 1 Three-day running averages of NO 2 vertical column amounts for 1991 in units of molecules cm -2 , for morning and evening when the Sun is at a solar zenith angle of 90° . |
| 26 | With a zoom , however , it is larger when the angle is wide and the lens is at a short setting ( eg 25mm ) and becomes smaller as the focal length increases — the beam of light , originally wide , is ‘ squashed ’ within the longer tube and becomes narrower , while distances between camera and mirror and between mirror and screen remain the same ( the screen would have to move backwards at a measured rate for the image to stay the same size ) . |
| 27 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 28 | Sadly , The Lost Road only survives as a fragment , and its story line is at a rudimentary stage of evolution . |
| 29 | It was built originally as two cottages , and one of the most striking features of the house is that the ceiling at the front is at a different level to that at the back . |
| 30 | each segment is at a different stage of market penetration . |