Example sentences of "to be at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 400 Cuban military advisers are reported to be at fortified bases in northern Panama , where they have been training the the militia of the Dignity Battalions , the Washington Times said yesterday . |
| 2 | Women taking atenolol appeared to be at lower risk of lung cancer , but the number of deaths was small and confidence intervals wide . |
| 3 | Beluga populations are also in many places suspected to be at dangerous levels after years of overexploitation . |
| 4 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is falling in all countries for which reliable data are available there are still certain groups of subjects believed to be at increased risk of developing this disease . |
| 5 | We always promised to be at each other 's wedding , and if I do n't turn up she 'll be upset . |
| 6 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 7 | All were to be at equal expense for the working of the mine . |
| 8 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 9 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 10 | There are many sincere souls who find the idea of God becoming a human to be at best implausible , and at worst blasphemous . |
| 11 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 12 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 13 | It seems at times to dwell excessively and inaccurately on the ineffectiveness of the English resistance ( see below ) , and is likely for the 990s at least to be at best a partial record . |
| 14 | At the top , leaders Whitby expect to be at virtual full strength for their game at Tow Law , who will be without Darren Darwen and Tony Higgs . |
| 15 | Training for nurse prescribing is likely to be at post-basic level . |
| 16 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 17 | The ACE/ID polymorphism seems to be a potent risk factor of coronary heart disease in subjects formerly considered to be at low risk according to common criteria . |
| 18 | As the influence of the DD genotype seemed to be independent of classical risk factors , we considered that it might be particularly important in myocardial infarction patients considered to be at low risk according to the usual criteria . |
| 19 | In conclusion , the ACE/DD genotype is a new potent risk factor for myocardial infarction in middle-aged men , particularly in subjects normally considered to be at low risk . |
| 20 | Until recently women have been considered to be at low risk from HIV and AIDS , and attention has been focussed on so-called high risk groups . |
| 21 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 22 | The evening meal is usually around seven , although it has been known to be at nine . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got to be at X Baths . ’ |
| 24 | Now , the beauty of this sort of explanation , where you have everybody on your side , when you are dealing with somebody who is unpopular , when you are all desperately anxious to find a scapegoat , is that your argument is unlikely to be at all jealously scrutinised . |
| 25 | This was not going to be at all easy . |
| 26 | However , given the weakness of France 's position since 1815 , the task was not going to be at all easy . |
| 27 | Take advice urgently if your intended course of action seems to be at all risky . |
| 28 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 29 | If we are to be at all logical in our approach to contemporary ethics , we must accept this much . |
| 30 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |