Example sentences of "[adj] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many old people are as good a set of consumers as anyone else , but the very old and frail are at risk . |
| 2 | His theory is that , as they were fourth on the water , the Spanish are at least fourth favourites to win . |
| 3 | Commercial and technical are at parity . |
| 4 | The Policy Advisory Committee strongly advised that 13 should remain the age limit on the ground that girls of 12 are at a vulnerable stage of their lives , in particular because they are usually in their first year at a senior school and there is a risk that they will imitate the behaviour , including the sexual ways , of older girls . |
| 5 | Such rules are not always calculated to improve the truth value of the police case and a few are at odds with the fact-finding object of police investigation . |
| 6 | ‘ He draws some encouragement from the fact that the British are at least thinking about industrial , as opposed to consumer , co-operatives . |
| 7 | But if the majority are still hesitating , some are at last being lured into the market — and more must follow to make even a modest recovery possible . |
| 8 | If hon. Members are going to be glued to their television sets , as apparently some are at home , there will be even fewer of them about anyway . |
| 9 | Licensed dealers proper are at their busiest when trading in government privatisations , perhaps the safest territory for the inexperienced private client . |
| 10 | If , as some think , the French are at last cutting their losses in the Ivory Coast , they may use their influence to leave something healthy behind . |
| 11 | Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’ |
| 12 | However , it requires that the metric be at least C 2 everywhere . |
| 13 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 14 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 15 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 16 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 17 | Things have changed enormously , but it 's , so it took sometime for them to get to know that they , the French were at war with , the Prussians and the Austrians , and do n't forget that Strasbourg is only on the other side of the Rhine from Germany or whatever part of Germany er , it was at the time . |
| 18 | The discussion that is recorded about Lothar 's age suggests that some were at first not too keen to elect a pope in his thirties who , on recent record , might last for half a century . |
| 19 | Some were at their wit 's end . |
| 20 | There was an 8% increase in launches to merchant vessels and tankers , with more than half being at night and 21% in winds over Force 7 . |
| 21 | The panel is still considering the divisional schools library service erm the , they 're very clear is at to whether these costs to the library is a fixed cost or a variable cost or perhaps even more to the point that it will need to reach the cost of libraries are fixed and variable and the differing views both within the panel and schools about that and the panel is continuing deliberating research . |
| 22 | He/she will tell you how much this is at the beginning so you know at the start how much you have to pay . |
| 23 | This is at best a corrective belief , for whatever else Ulysses or The Waste Land are doing , they are also invoking for us the Dublin of 1904 or the London of 1921 . |
| 24 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 25 | But this is at the level of nationalist discourse . |
| 26 | About 20% of the land is designated as Zone Defavorisee hors montagne and this is at a lower elevation of 200–400m , concentrated mainly in the north of Auvergne . |
| 27 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
| 28 | But although this is at first appealing , on closer examination the concept is somewhat flawed . |
| 29 | Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action . |
| 30 | This is at Johannesburg in south Africa . |