Example sentences of "[is] [conj] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is unusual about this resource is that at each point in the dialogue it is known what idea the speaker is trying to express , and what information the hearer has which provides the context for its understanding . |
| 2 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 3 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 4 | The likelihood is that at that point you will then turn into what the young term a boring old fart and that transition from enfant terrible to boring old fart is immediate at the age of sixty . |
| 5 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 6 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 7 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 8 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 9 | It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight . |
| 10 | This is because at any level there are competing interpretations of the data that can not be disambiguated , for which the appropriate information is available at some other level . |
| 11 | What matters is whether at that time the patient 's capacity was reduced below the level needed in the case of a refusal of that importance , for refusals can vary in importance . |