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

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1 Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate .
2 The Fellowship stipend , which will normally be at the appropriate academic salary scale , is paid direct to the fellow 's employer , and help towards other costs involved in the Fellowship may also be available .
3 Among the many shocks being delivered by the declining years of the twentieth century is that of discovering , after decades of thinking we were the true moderns , how modern they could already be at the other end of the century .
4 I make no bones about believing that this should always be at the lowest possible level , making me an enthusiastic decentraliser and a sceptical centraliser — whether to Whitehall and Brussels , or Westminster and Strasbourg .
5 ‘ British Sugar often want to move a load at very short notice and we must always be at the ready ’ he adds .
6 Needles to be brought into holding position must always be at the opposite side to the carriage .
7 He could justifiably be at the British Museum if asked .
8 Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property .
9 The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us .
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