Example sentences of "it is at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the case — and the religious context is a problem that will be considered with wider reference in due course — it is at church that the parish clerk , Absolon , is introduced . |
| 2 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) How should you study the family when it is at home ? |
| 4 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |
| 5 | What they all tell you is that doing business and controlling credit overseas is much the same as it is at home except that it is more complicated and expensive . |
| 6 | After all , nothing is a joke here , as it is at home with Felicity . |
| 7 | British television is almost as widely admired abroad as it is at home . |
| 8 | ‘ Right now it is at Pentagon level . |
| 9 | Even when it is at rest , silent and apparently non-polluting , the car continues to have environmental impacts . |
| 10 | The interval I between ticks emitted by the source when it is at rest at height r is given by . |
| 11 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 12 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 13 | It is at times like this , I 'm afraid , that he becomes an English windbag . |
| 14 | Spiced with soldier 's slang and scattered with a mix of European languages , it is at times a shocking , at other times a sentimental , but always a worthwhile account . |
| 15 | These circumstances are found more often amongst poorer groups in society — single-parent households , those in lower-paid occupations , large families , those dependent on social security benefits , and so on — and , whilst it is at times difficult to determine patterns of cause and effect in such situations , structural and environmental factors are clearly of great importance in being able to care for children . |
| 16 | It is at times suggested that the security forces are operating under a series of shackles , which it is sometimes suggested are of a political nature . |
| 17 | It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin . |
| 18 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 19 | Even more hammily : ‘ But — and here 's the bad news — our first priority — and I 've got to be blunt and straightforward with you — is to raise the number of students going through higher education to double what it is at present , by 96/97 . ’ |
| 20 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 21 | But it is at present bidding on a lot of new contracts and chief executive Ken Miller believes defence profits could start to turn up in 1993 . |
| 22 | It is at present very expensive , in the order of $US500-$US 1000 per ha , and low cost methods have not been developed . |
| 23 | that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality . |
| 24 | He is right to ask whether SERC as it is at present constituted could decide ruthlessly to cut projects in this area . |
| 25 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 26 | Main picture The view through the medieval solar as it is at present : ‘ It 's pretty primitive ’ |
| 27 | He gave two reasons : over-critical remarks of Hailsham and Macmillan and — the main reason — ‘ It is judged that the showing of the Suez programme could have untoward consequences while the situation in the Arab world is as critical as it is at present . ’ |
| 28 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 29 | While it is at present impossible to verify the claims , the list reflects the ethnic and religious complexities of the area . |
| 30 | It is at present impossible to make chronological sense of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs : even the most determined visitors eventually lose the thread and are forced to retrace their steps . |