Example sentences of "[verb] [is] at " in BNC.

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1 His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s .
2 Pascal captures the negative side when he writes , ‘ Doubt then is an unhappy state , but there is an indispensable duty to seek in doubt , and thus anyone who doubts and does not seek is at once unhappy and in the wrong . ’
3 Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events .
4 This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 .
5 Recourse to stabbing is at least potentially more open to abuse .
6 Everything you want is at your disposal .
7 Read every word and study the plans , before and after your survey , and if you do not understand any point , or if what you see or have seen is at variance with what is set down in the documents , then it is VITAL that you consult your solicitor before exchanging contracts .
8 The centre of the Sun where fusion occurs is at a temperature of around fifteen million degrees but practical fusion needs a much higher temperature than this — hundreds of millions of degrees .
9 The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from April 18 to April 21 .
10 The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over the Easter Weekend , April 18 to April 21 .
11 What is needed is at least 100 MPs present to support the Bill .
12 Content and Methodology Most of the training currently being offered is at an introductory level .
13 What happened is at the beginning of last year , Yvonne said to me er , we have lived in this house for three years , we must decorate it .
14 Recent commentaries , therefore , such as the review by O. B. Stabell , maintain that the case for imprinting is at best not proved .
15 the job that could be going is at , this erm and they do these tapes or something in Flint
16 Another display entitled ‘ La Corrida ’ featuring 120 paintings and drawings by Botero on the theme of bullfighting is at the Grand Palais from 20 to 29 November .
17 By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall .
18 We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line .
19 Now lip service has been paid to the length of transport policy in the South East , on off er donkey 's years er in fact an organisation roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Picc was working towards one but we know what happened to that .
20 Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state .
21 This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) .
22 While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession .
23 The incidence of breast cancer detected is at odds with the government 's claim that its programme has sufficient safeguards .
24 Item four , application by Homes , in conjunction with the for thirty six flats for residential development , on the land which I assume is at the rear of House , in erm , I will need some guides on it , because it 's a ghost before my time , erm , does anyone like
25 Q8 The answer is Yes since there is no longer a capital investment to finance and buying is at competitive prices .
26 All I 'm saying is at the moment , she ca n't apparently cope with the demand on her for bags .
27 yeah that 's what I 'm saying is at the moment the thing is you
28 A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage .
29 The only problem is knowing where to begin and a good place to start is at one of the best known fishing hotels in the north , Scourie Hotel , owned and managed by Ian Hay and his family for more than thirty years .
30 Guideline 1 : The best time to start is at the very beginning
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