Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [is] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at this crossover position that the motor 's torque producing capability is at a minimum ; at any other position more torque can be produced provided the appropriate phase is excited . |
| 2 | The transmit shunts bypass the record coils when the send/receive switch is at transmit and are adjusted such that the current through the recorder at the transmitting station is equal to that present on reception . |
| 3 | MUMS dreading the prospect of talking to their teenagers about adolescence will be relieved to know help is at hand in the form of the ‘ Tampax Teen Talk Line ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Nurse Batty is at it again , ’ he announced . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole process of becoming masculine is at risk in the little boy from the date of his birth on ; his still-to-be-created masculinity is endangered by the primary , profound , primeval oneness with the mother6 . ’ |
| 6 | However , the theme of unifying Germany by means of unifying Europe is at least two hundred years old . |
| 7 | RALPH ELLIS MEETS MP 'S AT WESTMINSTER |
| 8 | ‘ I hope Seve is at his best . |
| 9 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 10 | For many , paying taxes is at best a necessary evil , at worst a legal way for the Government to steal your money . |
| 11 | Does this mean anyone who has had hepatitis is at risk during heterosexual sex ? |
| 12 | Buying and selling art is at its most dramatic in an auction , a fact that auction houses are quick to exploit . |
| 13 | A LEGACY bequeathed more than 50 years ago to help Birkenhead is at last giving benefit to its elderly folk . |
| 14 | Hawick 's hooker and captain Jim Hay , a former B cap , has torn a hamstring and will miss his club 's match this weekend with relegation threatened Heriot 's at Mansfield Park . |
| 15 | Ingrow Station is at present being rebuilt by the lively society that supports the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Company , as part of a complete refurbishment of the unique branch . |
| 16 | Pioneer Playland is at the American Adventure Theme Park . |
| 17 | Usually , they have been recognised in the context of our early years in the family , since this is their dominant source during a period of particular dependence , and because later childhood is the age at which officially recorded criminality is at its greatest . |
| 18 | One of the best known sites is at Villeneuve-la-Garenne , Paris , which has been converted from oil to geothermal heating , with an annual saving of 3,400 tonnes of oil . |
| 19 | The earliest known example is at Pompeii and the largest is the Colosseum . |
| 20 | The best time of day to ride sledges is at night , and shifting Odd-Knut in daylight needed explosives . |
| 21 | As Cruising Altitude is at his very best and is favoured by the weights they will find him very difficult to beat . |
| 22 | By having an optical arrangement in which the stop is at a conjugate point of the source whilst the observing screen is at a conjugate point of the fluid , one can obtain an image of the flow pattern with these intensity variations . |
| 23 | He came back in the middle of the morning and his eyes met Jenna 's at once . |
| 24 | General admin : Preferred Working Hours are being updated for the Division : yours I 've not changed but I have put Astrid 's at 9.30 to 5.30 with 1 hour lunch . |
| 25 | ‘ The number of housing starts is up on January 1991 ; the ratio of average prices to average salaries is at its lowest number for years ; and the economy , especially in the North-East , looks set to improve . ’ |
| 26 | Mind you , he did Mandy 's at Mandy 's , I thought that was quite nice . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think Briggs is at all interested in Mr Rochester . |
| 28 | The most thoroughly surveyed site is at a depth of 2000 metres in the Galapagos Rift Valley . |
| 29 | Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds ( 1939 ) follows comparably in the wake of Joyce . |
| 30 | Since he is well built , and inventive , he argues ( in a travesty of logic that echoes Iago 's at a similar point , the thinness of the pretext revealing the strength of the desire ) , he has a right to the land reserved for the son born ‘ by order of law ’ : Since Gloucester loves both sons equally , that means that both by birth and by nature ( to the Renaissance the terms were synonymous ) he can not discriminate good from bad . |