Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 2 | Make sure the water the fish arrive in is at the same temperature as the pool before they are released . |
| 3 | I 've probably been out playing and you 've probably been at the shops . |
| 4 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 5 | Where economies in Whitehall have been made , they have usually been at the expense of services or functions . |
| 6 | But , if women 's bodies have always been at the forefront of discussions about painting and sculpture , it was women 's bodies seen and portrayed by men that were dominant . |
| 7 | Although isotope studies have always been at the heart of the deep-mantle recycling hypothesis , previous analyses have focused on radiogenic isotope variations ( those that result from radioactive decay , such as the isotopic composition of Sr and Nd ) ; Woodhead et al . |
| 8 | ‘ Yet women have really been at the forefront of the Green movement . ’ |
| 9 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |