Example sentences of "is at [det] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is at such times that the independence of the Supreme Court is at its greatest , but they are rather untypical .
2 In university and polytechnic libraries the advanced instruction has to wait until the second and third years of undergraduate courses , because it is at these stages that the students work on sometimes quite specialized projects .
3 It is at these times that the ghosts flock most cordially to our summons . ’
4 Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life .
5 It is at this stage that a couple sometimes decide to change to separate beds or even separate rooms .
6 It is at this stage that a major computer study may be undertaken into the integrity of the proposed design , in terms of function , strength , economics , etc .
7 It is at this stage that a useful picture of the market should emerge , that picture being appropriate to the particular requirements of the marketing objective established in ( a ) above .
8 It is at this stage that the exposure should be covered and exporters should not wait until the goods are being shipped .
9 It is at this stage that the specific aspect of the Sonnets which I wish to explore begins to emerge .
10 It is at this stage that the various approaches — use of quality adjusted life years , lotteries , sanctity of life — may be useful , but in discussing them the authors raise a series of straw men .
11 It is at this stage that the mobilisation of participants for action begins .
12 It is at this stage that the justification for neglecting harmonics of phase current becomes apparent .
13 It is at this stage that the contract is carefully examined , perhaps for the first time , and the company obtaining the software realizes , too late , that as far as it is concerned , the contract is little more than worthless and does not provide adequately for the situation .
14 The datafile is able to deal with up to four hundred records at any one time and it is at this stage that the school librarian has to decide on the number of data disks which will be needed .
15 It is at this moment that the question arises — is the victim who sustains the harm someone the defendant is under a duty not to harm ?
16 There is always a point at which the limitation of science , albeit forever progressing , introduces the need to make an unproved assumption about the mystery of life , and it is at this point that a religion becomes a necessity and must take over .
17 It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique .
18 Although a measure of ambivalence is quite usual , it is at this point that a decision is made about going public .
19 But it is at this point that an Aristotelian-type argument fails to be able to deal with the most difficult questions about autonomy .
20 It is at this point that the system is heading for a new crisis .
21 It is at this point that the analogy between anorexia nervosa and hysteria , which Freud saw as separate from and possibly opposed to the obsessional neuroses , seems to break down , along with Dally 's separation of the two as different forms of the disease .
22 It is at this point that the women are introduced into the story to take over the role of the disciples .
23 It is at this point that the anthropologist , when pressed , retreats into impenetrable jungles of ethnographic fact .
24 It is at this point that the subject of history re-enters ; history may be a process without one , but the subject is nevertheless inscribed within history .
25 It is at this point that the assumptions made about the nature of injections and leakages are relevant .
26 It is at this point that the paradox of change and continuity in the life of the farm worker becomes most clear .
27 It is at this point that the old Gotthard road and the railway line both cross to the west side of the valley while the modern motorway in galleries and tunnels cuts through the steep rock-flank of the massive Bristen , which was seen on the horizon earlier in the route .
28 Once again there are many names to choose from but it is at this point that the design of the Amstrad PC starts to interfere .
29 It is at this point that the Master realizes that Armel Santores and Larissa Toren are near anagrams , except that ‘ I ’ is missing from his name and ‘ me ’ from hers ( 69/647 ) .
30 It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm .
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