Example sentences of "the [noun] being at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 2 | The wages structure has proved extremely rigid with the lowest decile of the distribution being at around two-thirds of the median wage , as Table 3.19 shows . |
| 3 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 4 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 5 | The elections of the monk Reginald and later of the king 's candidate , John de Gray , were clearly uncanonical , and the electors being at Rome , the election of Langton was quite correct . |
| 6 | The mast I could manage but I did n't know there were different names for the parts of the sail — the head being at the top , the leech at the back and the luff by the mast . |
| 7 | As a divider ( Fig.5 ) , the Z input becomes the numerator , the denominator being at X. Gain is , again , adjustable by the use of an attenuator between output and Y2 , a technique that is used to advantage in the percentage computer in Fig. 6 , which gives the percentage deviation of A against B on a scale of 1 V per 1% . |
| 8 | There is nothing in the Act to confer immunity on a conveyance or transfer carried out to comply with a court order , but the existence of the wife 's right to financial relief against her husband may provide sufficient value to prevent the transaction being at an undervalue within the context of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( see Berry and Bailey , Bankruptcy Law and Practice Butterworths 1987 , p294 ) . |
| 9 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 10 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 11 | In the morning they left Scott of Eldinhope in rather better mood , the Regent being at pains to pay for benefits received , which clearly the laird had not expected . |
| 12 | Father McGuinness has decided , for the time being at least , to keep his profile low . |
| 13 | Two events occurred that ensured , for the time being at least , no such a change in Congressional attitudes would occur . |
| 14 | SUNDAY is a working day in Hungary , for the time being at least . |
| 15 | Ernst & Young is acting as investigating accoutants for the merchant bank and , for the time being at least , Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte , continues as the company 's accountants . |
| 16 | Ernst & Young is acting as investigating accountants for the merchant bank and , for the time being at least , Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte , continues as the company 's accountants . |
| 17 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 18 | ‘ The Smiths , despite inaccurate rumours by one music paper last week , are not leaving Rough Trade — for the time being at least . |
| 19 | ‘ For the time being at least you hold one trump card . ’ |
| 20 | He congratulated them , but at the same time insisted that , for the time being at least , they must move towards some sort of accommodation with the Poles . |
| 21 | Once the Bill receives its third reading , the House has passed it and , for the time being at least , finished with it . |
| 22 | While we agree that emotions should become a legitimate study for anthropologists , we nevertheless feel that the degree of consensus is minimal in such matters and that , for the time being at least , we should abandon universalistic explanatory models , and instead locate such studies within the indigenous understanding . |
| 23 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 24 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 25 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 26 | The Conservative Election victory in 1970 had removed , for the time being at least , the prospect of the School 's being compelled to join the Independent sector , and allowed thought to be given at some length as to what Independence might entail . |
| 27 | For the time being at least , she has managed to change the attitude of a significant proportion of the population towards the legitimacy of crucial parts of normal trade union practice , although opinion polls now show a growing esteem for trade unions shorn of some of the pre-1979 powers . |
| 28 | The newly decorated wards were left empty , for the time being at least . |
| 29 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 30 | It seems Cheltenham 's artistic attempt to engender friendship is having exactly the opposite effect , for the time being at least . |