Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers . |
| 2 | In The Wonderful Visit , the Angel and the Vicar are inevitably at odds . |
| 3 | Oxford and Swindon are both at home tomorrow … both away on Sunday … |
| 4 | The general feeling that one gets from reading this novel is that nothing much has changed and that the cold-war machinations are still at play and are as irrelevant and as brutal as ever . |
| 5 | An examination of Soviet attitudes to Western schemes to neutralise Afghanistan in the wake of Soviet military intervention in that country is particularly revealing since such Soviet attitudes are sharply at variance with those expressed in connection with the Soviet-sponsored Persian Gulf plan . |
| 6 | Hereford are away at Sheffield … |
| 7 | Deer numbers have been climbing steadily ever since the animals became a valuable resource for owners of stalking rights , and in many areas of the Highlands are now at levels which the land can not easily support . |
| 8 | It begins by looking at the ideas of lecturers , but is primarily concerned with the meanings that ‘ physics ’ or ‘ physical science ’ have for students , and the ways in which those meanings are sometimes at odds with the experience of studying those subjects . |
| 9 | ‘ What attempts are there at segregation between remand prisoners and convicted men here ? ’ |
| 10 | I must point out that these proposals are only at draft stage and Trade Unions are being consulted regarding them . |
| 11 | Large third-world cities are particularly at risk , as the depletion of groundwater reserves is likely to accelerate in order to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population . |
| 12 | Suppose all four Q outputs are initially at logic 0 . |
| 13 | This gross difference is unlikely to be the result solely of the way in which the Directive is implemented in the two countries — other influences are also at work — but the implementation of the Directive in the two countries is certainly different in several respects . |
| 14 | What kind of social aspects are there at college ? |
| 15 | Lots of tavernas and restaurants are near at hand and Faliraki 's great nightlife is within easy walking distance , approximately 15–20 minutes away . |
| 16 | The two nations are already at loggerheads over the failure of trade talks between the EC and the Americans . |
| 17 | Recent memoranda from Regional Managers requesting the recording of errors which occur in Pool Cashes are completely at variance with agreements in respect of Pool Cashes . |
| 18 | Pilots learning to fly the very docile 3-axis control microlight aircraft are also at risk . |
| 19 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 20 | This in in sharp contrast to the 1970s and most of the 1980s when the UGT and CCOO were bitterly at odds . |
| 21 | Jaq 's sensual lips were definitely at odds with his sceptical ice-blue eyes . |
| 22 | Peter Cunningham is still at university and is now joined by younger brother Michael , and Paul Mitchell is on crutches and will be out to Christmas . |
| 23 | Like many religious folk who have gone into politics , he seems to be two people , a man whose private persona is bafflingly at odds with his public . |
| 24 | The use of scientific instruments in particular means that scientific perception is constantly at odds with the experience of everyday perception . |
| 25 | The fact/belief divide is powerfully at work today as for example the debate on the original National Curriculum proposals with regard to the teaching of history and geography has amply attested . |
| 26 | Her owners run boarding kennels so the pig is perfectly at home with dogs . |
| 27 | Her owners run boarding kennels so the pig is perfectly at home with dogs . |
| 28 | The aircraft is currently at Liberal being prepared for a ferry flight to Galveston and it is expected that the aircraft will be restored to full combat configuration . |
| 29 | ‘ I signed a new three-year contract in the middle of last season and my future is hopefully at Tottenham . |
| 30 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |