Example sentences of "the [adj] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest is at the base of the tail . |
| 2 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 3 | Although more than 40 camps were revealed to have existed , the largest was at Lovech in northern Bulgaria . |
| 4 | His theory is that , as they were fourth on the water , the Spanish are at least fourth favourites to win . |
| 5 | The cause is not signal splatter ; the noise which annoys the deaf is at a much lower frequency . |
| 6 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 7 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 8 | However , it requires that the metric be at least C 2 everywhere . |
| 9 | ‘ He draws some encouragement from the fact that the British are at least thinking about industrial , as opposed to consumer , co-operatives . |
| 10 | If , as some think , the French are at last cutting their losses in the Ivory Coast , they may use their influence to leave something healthy behind . |
| 11 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 12 | Things have changed enormously , but it 's , so it took sometime for them to get to know that they , the French were at war with , the Prussians and the Austrians , and do n't forget that Strasbourg is only on the other side of the Rhine from Germany or whatever part of Germany er , it was at the time . |
| 13 | that the nought on the on the outside is at the top , not the nought on the inside which |
| 14 | As the Japanese are at present constituted , accidents to life and limb would most certainly occur if trains made but a brief halt to entrain passengers . |
| 15 | Accordingly the accused is at present guilty if he negligently caused such injury . |
| 16 | A mire is defined here in the sense of Ratcliffe in Burnett ( 1964 ) as a habitat in which the watertable is at or near the surface but where there is lateral water movement . |
| 17 | Several Baccarat millefiori weights from the 1840s are at the top of the range . |
| 18 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 19 | New paintings by Julian Schnabel manage to fill both of Pace gallery 's spaces this month ( the 57th Stret show until 30 May and the Greene Street one until 5 June ) , and works by Georg Baselitz may also be seen at two places : works from the Seventies are at Michael Werner until 6 June and a selection of watercolours , pastels and drawings at Matthew Marks ( 2 May–26 June ) . |
| 20 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 21 | Their talk is of property prices , hired bodyguards and stun guns , because the poor are at the gate , inside the gate in the form of the Mexican nurse , the Filipino maid , the Irish girl , the Yugoslav lass ; the ones who stand while others sit , and wash the dishes while others eat . |
| 22 | Cardinal Basis Hume told SVP members that their work with the old , sick , bereaved , lonely and the poor was at the centre of the mission of the church ; by showing the face of Christ to those with needs , they were bringing Gospel values to the community . |
| 23 | If Habermas has relegated the aesthetic realm to foreground the place of practical and theoretical reason , and if Adorno has attributed priority to the aesthetic , albeit a rationalized and formalized aesthetics from which connections to the social-political are at best obscure , then Benjamin , probably critical theory 's foremost sociologist of culture , has — much like French poststructuralism — promulgated an aesthetics and politicized understanding of art and culture that on a range of essential points are effectively postmodernist . |
| 24 | The most striking feature is that expenditure in the 1970s was at a far higher level than during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're very concerned ; carers will be under immense stress because of inadequate support and relief , while the elderly are at much greater risk of being alone in the community ’ . |
| 26 | The latter is at approximately 20kHz , which means that the filter must severely attenuate frequencies above about 10kHz . |
| 27 | The frequent battle between parents and child when the latter is at an adolescent stage of self-assertion while the parents — or one of them — strive to retain the old family structure is a case in point . |
| 28 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 29 | The latter was at Jalo Oasis , in command of a motorized force that was to operate on the southern flank of the Eighth Army . |
| 30 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |