Example sentences of "[adj] be at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval .
2 Traditionally it has been assumed that this is at the interendothelial slits where the red cells enter the venous sinuses from the reticuloendothelial meshwork .
3 This is at the opposite extreme from those occupations that are inherently invidious , those that place the individual directly under the command of another , as in the case of the doorman or the household servant , and those involving a vast range of tasks — street cleaning , garbage collection , janitorial services , elevator operation — that have an obtrusive connotation of social inferiority .
4 As we have noted , this is at the opposite pole from the extreme classical view that wage-earners save little , and that the primary source of accumulation is saving out of profits .
5 But as we have seen , this is at the very heart of the problem of the survival of free institutions , because if this policy is pursued it would be impossible to stop the drift to totalitarianism .
6 It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was .
7 These are at the far end of the Grotto and filled with the waters from the spring of the Grotto .
8 If all are at the same level , there is a high degree of status crystallization , and stress for a status-related reason is improbable .
9 These talks will all be at the usual time , date and place — 7.30 p.m. on the first Friday of the month , at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle .
10 These talks will all be at the usual time , date and place — 7.30 p.m. on the first Friday of the month , at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle .
11 In fact everybody at MIP complains about it , but they 'll all be at the next one .
12 All were at the same stage of their career , applying for their first senior house officer post in a non-teaching hospital because applications to teaching hospitals usually require completion of a form .
13 It has been the sometimes unspoken assumption of these two parallel debates — whose spokespersons are often one and the same — that to be on the side of modernity and modernism is to be on the side of critical theory , and that to be a postmodernist is at the same time to be in sympathy with poststructuralism .
14 Of the twenty-two Blackpool trams preserved , nine are at the National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire .
15 Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect .
16 His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots .
17 Indeed , several are at the other extreme and are so hardy as to be used for screening and protection in exposed positions .
18 Even more important than the nature of the upper is the midsole , for that is at the very heart of the boot 's performance .
19 The amendments , which were first noted in the Law Society Gazette of 6 May 1992 , came into force with effect from 1 June 1992 , that is at the same time the changes occasioned by the SAR and the ARR were effective ( Law Society bulletin No 7 provides full details ) .
20 There the finite mind of man , which is but a fragment and form of the Infinite , discovers its true identity with the Absolute — and that is at the same time the return of the Absolute to itself , its own self-realisation .
21 That is at the same time the power of imposition of the definition of science ; that is , the power to draw the limits of the field , to decide who is in and who is out .
22 So , that 's at the unskilled end .
23 But that 's at the local level .
24 They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built .
25 There was something about her mouth , calm and amused , that was at the same time enigmatic and debunking ; pretending and admitting the pretence .
26 Both are at the geometric centre of the Mansion , beneath the cupola and right above the South Portico .
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