Example sentences of "[be] [adv] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , school-age children are most at risk to hazards in the outdoors environment , particularly in the roads and in the school playground . |
| 2 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 3 | However , contrary to popular myth , it is n't heroin injectors who are most at risk of contracting HIV . |
| 4 | The challenge is to identify at an early stage those who are most at risk of developing serious complications so that appropriate treatment may be given . |
| 5 | Within the elderly population , it is the very old ( i.e. those aged over 80 ) , women , those living alone , those from manual occupations and the disabled who are most at risk of experiencing poverty in later life ( Victor 1989a ) . |
| 6 | 4 Identify and explain which patients are most at risk of pressure sore development . |
| 7 | Spenser , or the inheritors of his estate , are most at risk of catching the same savage disease . |
| 8 | They are most at risk along our roads where the average family car can deposit a pound of lead ( 454g ) per year out of the exhaust pipe . |
| 9 | The soft and acid water areas of Scotland , and north-west England are most at risk from lead , and the East Anglian and Staffordshire areas from nitrates . |
| 10 | As children are those that are most at risk from impact by vehicles in housing areas , any search for safer streets should focus principally on them ( Figure 2.5 ) . |
| 11 | Although it is probable that the same applies to established onshore centres , the fact is that it is the offshore centres , especially those in the Caribbean , that are most at risk from drugs money . |
| 12 | If you have a fair , sensitive skin , your genetic capability of tanning may be limited and you are most at risk from burning and all the nasty effects of too much sunlight , including skin cancer . |
| 13 | The Marine Conservation Society has produced a leaflet explaining which species are most at risk from the souvenir trade . |
| 14 | The vaccinations will be introduced in october , but at first will only be available for children under one year old ; the age they are most at risk from this form of meningitis . |
| 15 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 16 | Your fine capital fully justifies its appellation , the Pearl of the Orient , and the people in its streets seem content and happy and are obviously at ease under your benevolent governance . |
| 17 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 18 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 19 | It 's impossible to predict the eventual outcome of all of this competition , but the cellular operators will need to overcome some significant hurdles before British consumers ( business and domestic ) are entirely at ease with cellular phones analogue or digital . |
| 20 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
| 21 | THE FOREST COLONIAL folding chair would have been entirely at home on the deck of any of the great ocean liners of the 1830s . |
| 22 | Since I have been away at Scarborough on holiday I got the YEP every day and the special Leeds edition that they do every season . |
| 23 | REVISIONISTS are already at work on April 24th 's gay march on Washington . |
| 24 | Forest are already at Wembley for ZDS Cup final in which they meet Southampton on March 29 . |
| 25 | The two nations are already at loggerheads over the failure of trade talks between the EC and the Americans . |
| 26 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're away at school at present , ’ the woman said . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's no wonder we 're always at odds with each other . |
| 29 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 30 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |