Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [modal v] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kessler and McLeod also found plausible evidence in three studies that the buffering effects of emotional support might be at least as important in circumstances of chronic strain as for people facing the acute stress of major events . |
| 2 | One suggestion for avoiding this is to have the explicit tax rate apply only to net-of-transfer income earnings , so that if the benefit withdrawal rate is 60 per cent and the explicit tax rate 30 per cent the ‘ total ’ tax paid on an additional £1 of earned income would be at a rate , which is a sum comprising 60p less means-tested benefit , and 30 per cent of 40p = 12p explicit tax , i.e. 72p . |
| 3 | He created several gardens on the Continent , including Villa Maryland and Villa Rosemary in the south of France ; but his crowning glory must be at Iford , where he has brought Italy to Wiltshire and set it tumbling down the hanger , in a series of steep paths , steps , and terraces where colonnades , cloisters , fountains and well-heads abound . |
| 4 | It 's only two inches above my knees ; a proper mini should be at least six . |
| 5 | And if the north Aegean panel of tribute-paying allies succumbed to attack or subversion , the Hellespontine corn-route would be at risk . |
| 6 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 7 | The boys of Pensby High School will be going French at the Parkgate Hotel , Wirral , the South Wirral High School will be at the Cromwell Hotel , Bromborough , while pupils at St Ambrose Barlow School in Netherton will be working alongside staff at the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby . |
| 8 | The boys of Pensby High School will be going French at the Parkgate Hotel , Wirral ; the South Wirral High School will be at the Cromwell Hotel , Bromborough ; while pupils at St Ambrose Barlow School in Netherton will be working alongside staff at the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby . |
| 9 | 8.3 The Licensed Software shall be at the risk of in transit . |
| 10 | For really reliable stability a design should have a rate of closure in the Bode plot of less than 6 dB per octave and all break points of the linear approximation should be at least a decade in frequency away from the intersection corresponding to . |
| 11 | The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels . |
| 12 | As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk . |
| 13 | The authors have argued elsewhere ( Brechin and Swain , 1988 ) that the skill-development focus of goal planning and Individual Planning can be at odds with an approach that emphasises an individual 's right to be valued for what he/she is , and to have opportunities for an ordinary life made available unconditionally . |
| 14 | New tests have shown that homes throughout an entire county could be at risk from the radioactive gas Radon . |
| 15 | Here , one might think , was an occasion when the symbol of national unity would be at its most needed , as citizens prepare to sacrifice their lives for King and Country : under conditions of national threat , the psychological strength of the symbol could be expected to be intensified ( Edelman , 1964 ; Sherif , 1966 ) . |
| 16 | The Zimbabwean national team may be at the foot of the world cup table , but youth cricket is coming on apace . |
| 17 | ‘ Where patient health can be at risk , you simply can not afford to be out of line with the programme of works . ’ |
| 18 | For maximum torque the motional voltage must be at its maximum during the phase winding excitation interval [ Fig. 7.12(b) ] . |
| 19 | The likely doubling of numbers of people aged over 85 between 1981 and 2001 is striking ; by the same year almost half the elderly population will be at least 75 . |
| 20 | ‘ The key match might be at home to Switzerland in September . |
| 21 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 22 | It 's almost unbelievable that this has happened again.This poor man must be at his wit 's end . |
| 23 | But structure it too heavily and the gain in increased remembering will be at the expense of a diminishing sense of personal involvement at any particular moment when we do remember . |
| 24 | And the age of the primary application should be at least 20 years . |
| 25 | The overall effect on sensitivity may actually be negative because the focusing of attention on redundant information may be at the cost of attention to peripheral information which might have otherwise been useful . |
| 26 | These results suggest that the children of fathers who had been monitored for exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation in the nuclear industry may be at increased risk of developing leukaemia before their fifth birthday . |
| 27 | The findings from this study , taken together with those of Gardner et al , suggest that the children of certain men who are monitored for exposure to external ionising radiation in the nuclear industry might be at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 28 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 29 | France 's president , François Mitterrand , is among those who have pointed out that transferring the power to make monetary policy to an independent body would be at odds with the clause . |
| 30 | Hence the eventual position will be at a point like C. |