Example sentences of "be at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodies all appeared to be at slightly different stages of decomposition ; the one before them now looked to be the most recent of them all . |
| 2 | ‘ Our findings mean that those who start to smoke in their teenage years will be at particularly high risk of death from tobacco in later life . ’ |
| 3 | In the higher sea level of the first interglacial , any mud left would be at too great depths to be disturbed by waves and hence for the first time the seas would be clear enough for reef-building corals to flourish . |
| 4 | ( It used to be at more frequent intervals , but this was found to be too disruptive . ) |
| 5 | Yet a population with a high dietary intake of fat , protein , and meat can also be at very low risk of colorectal cancer . |
| 6 | Schools seemed to be at very different stages of development and sophistication here , with some proposals incorporating details of taxonomies of the skills to be developed , while others made general statements of intent about ill-defined programmes of study or library skills . |
| 7 | The words had to be carefully chosen so as to be at once simple and evocative . |
| 8 | Yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and forced to conform to wills which are not his own . |
| 9 | As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ . |
| 10 | A woman can be at once lovely and loathsome , chaste and lecherous , Sacred Bride and Queen of Hell . |
| 11 | It will be at once obvious that a rotation has occurred , round an identifiable centre . |
| 12 | Under new Law Society regulations the articled clerk must be paid an ‘ acceptable ’ salary , the intention being that this shall be at least equivalent to the undergraduate maintenance grant , grossed up to cover 52 weeks instead of 38 and further increased to take account of the income tax and national insurance contributions payable . |
| 13 | The initial conceptual models were developed almost intuitively , based on the idea that , for a College to be self-sufficient , the income received must be at least equal to the cost of providing the further education courses at the required level . |
| 14 | He did n't smile as the Shermans approached but waited with his left hand resting on the hilt of his ceremonial sword , his aloof expression suggesting that he estimated the dignity of his person to be at least equal to that of the fabled hero of France looking down from the wall behind him . |
| 15 | In relation to on-exchange transactions the amount of margin demanded must be at least equal to the exchange 's own requirements . |
| 16 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 17 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 18 | If , as I must assume for present purposes , the plaintiffs have a good cause of action in professional negligence against the third party , then it must be at least possible , if not indeed likely , that the damages recoverable by the plaintiffs from the third party would include damages under at least some of these heads . |
| 19 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 20 | For example , for the acquisition of speech there has to be at least adequate hearing , an adequately functioning speech apparatus and the opportunity to hear others ' voices for imitation . |
| 21 | Expensive to maintain ; Fedorov must be at least well-to-do , probably rich . |
| 22 | However , the sanction chosen should be real and effective , that is , it should satisfy cumulatively the following three conditions : ( a ) it should be adequate in relation to the damage sustained ( principle of proportionality ) , ( b ) it should have a real deterrent effect on the author of the infringement ( principle of effectiveness ) and ( c ) it should be at least comparable to the sanctions imposed for infringements of national law of similar nature and importance ( principle of non discrimination or of comparability ) . |
| 23 | Although it is not always possible to record all this information in the modelling process , it is necessary to be at least aware of these factors . |
| 24 | I shall continue to speak in these and the more ordinary ways of the things in question , but it will be at least economical to have a single wholly general term for all of them . |
| 25 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 26 | On the positive side ‘ three in five of the sample were discharged into accommodation judged by staff to suit them well or to be at least satisfactory ’ . |
| 27 | This will require the hospital to levy a charge , which might initially be at nationally determined rates ’ ( DoH , 1989c , para.2. 18 ) . |