Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule , Rule 15 ( Client Care ) , and the Law Society guide that interprets it , is intended to ensure that the client is properly informed at all times , as to who is dealing with the matter , as to the available complaints procedure and as to how the action is progressing . |
| 2 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 3 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 4 | This Ca 2+ -calmodulin effect on the channel is most pronounced at low cGMP concentrations as found under physiological conditions . |
| 5 | It is a large star , perhaps as much as 6000000 kilometres in diameter , but it is comparatively cool ; it is of course red , though the colour is most pronounced at minimum . |
| 6 | There is some evidence that the concentration of acid in the stomach is highest in the night and this might explain why the pain associated with excess gastric acid is most marked at night and can wake you then . |
| 7 | The distinction between a haulage company and a freight forwarding company with its own road haulage arm is rather blurred at present . |
| 8 | The second is given a light touch , so that banality is skilfully kept at arm 's length , and an elegantly phrased Andante precedes a finale which has a confident , dignified , uplifting quality . |
| 9 | I think that the bill which we first saw may well not be the bill that is eventually produced at the end of the day . |
| 10 | It must now be clear that whatever form of unification or quasi-unification is eventually arrived at will not involve the neutralisation of West Germany in any meaningful sense . |
| 11 | If real truth is eventually arrived at , its reality will be self-evident , and will therefore not admit of controversy . |
| 12 | The strict settlement method is rarely used at the present day . |
| 13 | This helps to reinforce the meaning of the structures students are learning , and ensures that form is rarely looked at in isolation . |
| 14 | That to the bottom left is badly drawn at the base , the foot is crooked and the gadroons are smaller at the left than to the right . |
| 15 | Gorbad is badly wounded at the Battle of Grunberg , but the battle is won and the Empire army flees back to Altdorf . |
| 16 | As a result of our involvement , however , it would appear that the NCT is little known at either a national or local level . |
| 17 | The role of peptide hormones produced by endocrine cells in fetal development is incompletely understood at present in both experimental animals and humans . |
| 18 | At girls ' puberty rituals the novice , folded in a blanket , is gently placed at the roots of a slender mudyi sapling . |
| 19 | He probably tells you that it is all arranged at this end , whereas in point of fact nothing has been laid on except by verbal arrangement with him , and then we have a frightful period such as is now going on . |
| 20 | Her gaze is constantly directed at advertising images which then become her image . |
| 21 | Ms Davis is highly regarded at the Metropolitan Police 's forensic science laboratory . |
| 22 | Foucault , and those influenced by him , have displayed a great scepticism about the possibilities of a conventional history : Foucault stresses that his work is basically aimed at constructing a ‘ genealogy ’ , the locating of the ‘ traces ’ of the present rather than reconstructing the past . |
| 23 | Girls do not gain the same level of formal qualifications as do boys , and the gap is especially marked at the upper levels of education , in the universities . |
| 24 | ‘ He is greatly admired at Lord 's . ’ |
| 25 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 26 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 27 | Just as the smell of a ripe Camembert is only mouthwatering at the dinner table , the attraction of female odours is likely to depend on their context . |
| 28 | At later stages the marsh cover becomes denser and deposition is encouraged , until finally the marsh is built up to such an extent that it is only covered at high spring tides . |
| 29 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 30 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |