Example sentences of "be at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 2 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 3 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 4 | All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats . |
| 5 | ( Each abacus bead will be at either the left or the right of the abacus wire . ) |
| 6 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 7 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 8 | The Christian painting may be at once a holy picture and a convincing representation of a woman tenderly cradling her son , seen in front of a north Italian landscape . |
| 9 | And may this book be at least a small stepping-stone on your way . |
| 10 | What we mean … is that the probability of the person 's having an accident is high , and his own mariner of driving will be at least a partial cause of the accident . |
| 11 | Herein lies the problem : the wood needs to be of a species for which there is a ‘ master chronology ’ ( see p. 125 ) and there must normally be at least a hundred tree rings in the sample to be dated to ensure a unique match with the master pattern . |
| 12 | Violet , watching the tall negress , a bold haughty bearing ; she appeared the star attraction out of all the women — and there must , all smoking , posing , rude as the renaissance , be at least a hundred whores — wondered ( such a rate , turnover ) at the money in her handbag . |
| 13 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 14 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 15 | Before primary gall stones form , there must be at least a triple defect : ( i ) the secretion of bile that is supersaturated with cholesterol , ( ii ) a nucleation defect due to an excess of promotors or a deficiency of inhibitors of crystallisation , or both , and ( iii ) stasis within the gall bladder secondary to impaired gall bladder motor function . |
| 16 | For the responses to be regarded as in any way representative of the views of the congregation , there should be at least a seventy-five per cent response rate . |
| 17 | The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known , but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV . |
| 18 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 19 | Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands . |
| 20 | The 1989 total is likely to be at least a third higher . |
| 21 | The server needs to be at least an 80386 machine running MS-DOS 4.0 up , any version of OS/2 from 1.3 up , Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 or 2.1 or Manager Services for Macintosh 1.0 ; Novell NetWare NFS 1.1 , ODI-compliant network adaptor ( Token-Ring or Ethernet ) . |
| 22 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 23 | But under these circumstances it must , from the nature of things , be at least an even chance that the jury called upon to find a publisher guilty may sympathise with his language … as fair and laudable criticism of official errors . |
| 24 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 25 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |