Example sentences of "[verb] are at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 2 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
| 3 | Data creation and data capture are at odds with each other ; the protagonists and the interpreters of history are still at cross purposes . |
| 4 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 5 | Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution . |
| 6 | less greedily rooted are at risk . |
| 7 | We therefore believe that , provided level-1 lesions are not included in the calculation ( because of uncertainty about whether they are progressive ) , our findings support the hypothesis that patients in categories A–D are at increased risk of developing melanoma . |
| 8 | But the skills involved are at least equalled by those lavished on some of the base metal objects , such as the iron sword with its complex design of pattern welding ( see p. 88 ) and the intricately cast and decorated escutcheons on the hanging bowls . |
| 9 | In situations of this sort the exchange may need special rules , or even powers , which allow it to act for reasons of market integrity alone , and in order to preserve investor confidence , regardless of whether the parties involved are at fault . |
| 10 | Since the trends that I have observed are at work in most other fields of business activity it seems unlikely that the book trade will be able to avoid them . |
| 11 | All the hearty citizens of this city who can walk are at the Citadel , because that is where they have locked up the food , and are distributing it . |
| 12 | Surveys just before this Truth in Lending Act , just after , and again in 1977 , have shown a steady growth in the proportion of American consumers whose estimates of the APRs being charged on the credit they use are at least reasonably close to actual market rates . |
| 13 | The requirements that member states co-operate are at the same time strengthened . |
| 14 | It is only by exerting upward pressure themselves , using whatever means are at their disposal , that workers are able to sustain wage levels and general conditions . |
| 15 | Dr Anthony Ayles , of the Hermitage Group practice in Edinburgh , is one of several GPs who offer this service but only to patients he considers are at risk from heart disease — those with a close relative who developed coronary problems before 50 , those who smoke , have high blood pressure , are overweight , diabetic or take little exercise . |
| 16 | ( Addresses where these can be obtained are at the end of the book . ) |
| 17 | Scattered among the hundreds of central London houses he manages are at least 100 empty properties . |
| 18 | Make and have are at the top of the binding hierarchy and take the " highly non-verbal " bare infinitive ; order is lower on the scale and takes the to infinitive ; next comes insist , which is followed by a subordinate clause containing a finite subjunctive form , and then think , construed with a subordinate clause in the indicative . |
| 19 | The differences between schooled and unschooled children that Greenfield 's material suggests are at a less universal and profound level than her descriptions imply . |
| 20 | Women trapped at home sewing and gluing and stapling are at the dustbin end of dreadful employment practices . |
| 21 | The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it . |
| 22 | Clearly what you need are at least two helpers . |