Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] be at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 2 | In fact , neither side was at first attempting to reach the defensive flank of the North Sea ; rather , each was hastening to get around the enemy 's northern flank in the only area where mobile warfare was still possible on the Western Front . |
| 3 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 4 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 5 | For the current system this neighbourhood is at most five words long . |
| 6 | Some investment is at last being made in south Wales in that respect . |
| 7 | Rivers have been restored to healthy levels and , more importantly , this rain is at last reaching the water-permeable rocks deep underground . |
| 8 | ‘ It is emphasised that this paper is at fundamental level , and will be set and marked accordingly . |
| 9 | The books that follow this pattern are at first sight attractive , ideal for ‘ face-on ’ displays , and can even seem to have some serious purpose . |
| 10 | The British Steel example suggests that this belief is at best doubtful . |
| 11 | This puzzle was at last unravelled in a series of brilliant papers of a rather technical and mathematical nature by the English geneticist and entomologist William Hamilton ( 1964 , 1971a , b , 1972 ) . |
| 12 | This account is at best naive and at worst apologetic for the behaviour of the Organization 's largest member — the United States . |
| 13 | On the point of secrecy , some information was at last released , but with insufficient hard financial data for opponents of schemes to interpret it clearly . |
| 14 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 15 | Except in the southeast corner , the properties in this unit are at right angles to the north-south road , and the overall rectilinear arrangement of the plan is clear . |
| 16 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 17 | Revolutionary theories may be accepted or discarded , but least cognisance is at taken of them and of what preceded them . |
| 18 | This need not , however , suggest ( as Saunders sometimes does indeed imply ) that owner-occupation is at all times and in all places an optimum means of gaining control over one 's own life . |
| 19 | And they 'll quote to me that inflation 's at two percent . |
| 20 | The main problem is that neither cluster is at all prominent , and it is easy to be misled by the adjacent star-fields . |
| 21 | The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers . |
| 22 | In 1990 that corner was at last turned and the new BS 402 is now fully operational . |
| 23 | If one child in a family is maltreated , others in the same family are at high risk . |
| 24 | I do n't think that Dad is at all , but |
| 25 | Whether any other position could serve that purpose is at best arguable , but in any case all discs need to be in a standard place so that they can be checked in seconds without searching . |
| 26 | The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines . |