Example sentences of "that be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 2 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 3 | But the demonstration that high levels of p53 are induced by DNA damage has led to the concept that p53 might be part of a damage-control pathway rather than the pathways that are at work in normal development . |
| 4 | Even the Southampton example pales into relative financial insignificance compared with the huge sums that are at stake in the sale of the Scottish Bus Group companies . |
| 5 | This section is based on an article by Wilkinson ( 1982 ) , which is very useful as it exposes the underlying ideologies/philosophies or interests that are at stake in this kind of reform . |
| 6 | Of course there is no possible denying our need for people so educated that they may fill the jobs that are at present unfilled , or offered to people from other countries , because of our own shortage of skilled and competent technologists . |
| 7 | The list below names employees that are at present being transferred and whose details are required as soon as possible . |
| 8 | But whether you scrap all the platforms that are at present built in the north sea 's another thing all together . |
| 9 | Overseas securities markets , particularly those that are at present relatively expensive and illiquid should grow rapidly in the future with convergence of regulations , possibly at the expense of the London International Stock Exchange , as foreign shares traditionally traded in London move to their increasingly sophisticated domestic markets . |
| 10 | But these people are now citizens of Arab states that are at war with Israel and they can not claim possession of this land . |
| 11 | And herein , of course , lies one of the ruder ironies of the Pacific : that among all this economic vibrancy and dynamism there are still the familiar evils we currently associate only with Africa , or with countries that are at war : illiteracy , hunger , a vertiginous growth of population , disease , overcrowding , slums . |
| 12 | It is the qualification rules — the lack of them , that is — that are at fault and New Zealand are no worse than several other countries , including the Home Unions , in allowing , in the absence of directives , expediency to govern selection . |
| 13 | Various reasons are suggested to explain the resurgence in recent years but the weight of opinion is that it is operational problems that are at fault rather than technical deficiencies — for example , poor application of the insecticide rather than resistance to it and organisational shortcomings rather than aberrant behaviour of vectors . |
| 14 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 15 | Photographs and illustrations Wherever possible , include a picture of the building or group of buildings that are at risk . |
| 16 | S he thinks that all the ones that were at school with him are s talking |
| 17 | Before we can try , it will be helpful to recall the issues that were at stake , the aims of the Council in this document , and the main emphases in its teachings and recommendations . |
| 18 | When a city and its territory was divided between two kings we should understand that it was their revenues that were at stake , although certain cities also had a strategic importance , which may also have been a matter of concern . |
| 19 | Erm either for the younger children that were at home or your parents to eat . |
| 20 | In many ways Pomerania is central to the processes that were at work in Prussia and Germany . |
| 21 | Although Howell was cited to the Court , none of the three judgments refers to that decision , and Templeman and Denning L.JJ. made remarks that were at variance with it . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a whole way of life that is at stake . |
| 23 | The contemporary relevance of narrative fiction is one of the things that is at stake in the technological ‘ revolution ’ , and Brooke-Rose addresses the issue from a perspective that is both sceptical and hopeful , ludic and apocalyptic . |
| 24 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 25 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 26 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 27 | Rather , we claim , it is the political objective of removing local government 's autonomy that is at issue . |
| 28 | Some young readers ‘ escape ’ with Enid Blyton , some with The lord of the rings : it is the use made by the individual of the material rather than the kind of material that is at issue here . |
| 29 | It is just their dignity as selves that is at issue , and Mr Jones has chosen the most powerful humiliation of all , that is treating them as within the social control of their parents . |
| 30 | It is the private world of the student 's mind that is at issue , a world that should expand and take on a rich array of colours , within the course of studies . |