Example sentences of "[conj] [is] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crossover point ( where is at 440 K. |
| 2 | A worthwhile person is always clear : she never loses her grasp on what is going on , gets confused , or is at a loss for an explanation , or at the very least a coherent understanding of what is going on . |
| 3 | Some writers , as we have seen , are suspicious of unanimity on the grounds that it can only be , or is at least most likely to be , the product of either manipulation from above or the coercive pressure of majority opinion on the rest , or of a combination of both of these . |
| 4 | It requires the court to have regard in particular to : ( a ) the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned ( considered in the light of his age and understanding ) ; ( b ) his physical , emotional and educational needs ; ( c ) the likely effect on him of any change in his circumstances ; ( d ) his age , sex , background and any characteristics of his which the court considers relevant ; ( e ) any harm which he has suffered or is at risk of suffering ; ( f ) how capable each of his parents , and any other person in relation to whom the court considers the question to be relevant , is of meeting his needs ; and ( g ) the range of powers available to the court . |
| 5 | That is , the assumption that by controlling a researcher can move closer to the truth , or is at worst a benign procedure , can not be sustained . |
| 6 | The exchange structure enhances , or is at any rate available to enhance , " investor confidence " , by its special " market integrity " . |
| 7 | These are : ( i ) the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned ( considered in the light of his age and understanding ) ; ( ii ) his physical , emotional and educational needs ; ( iii ) the likely effect on him of any change in his circumstances ; ( iv ) his age , sex , background and any characteristics of his which the court considers relevant ; ( v ) any harm which he has suffered or is at risk of suffering ; ( vi ) how capable each of his parents , and any other person in relation to whom the court considers the question to be relevant , is of meeting his needs ; ( vii ) the range of powers available to the court under the Act . |
| 8 | ROMANCE has died , or is at least sickening , in Galashiels . |
| 9 | With well written characters the words fit and flow so that the actor can ride with ease , and the thoughts , no matter how disjointed , have a natural quality that is at once ‘ actable ’ . |
| 10 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 11 | In other words , the perception is a mental effect that is at one step in the causal chain beyond the physical events . |
| 12 | It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners . |
| 13 | Later we go to sleep with the noise of rain on the flysheet , that noise that is at one time both infuriating because it means that tomorrow 's enjoyment may be curtailed , and soothing in a strange way . |
| 14 | Judaism recognizes the tremendous power of women 's sexuality , and it is the acknowledgement of this power that is at the heart of many of the Jewish laws concerning women 's lives . |
| 15 | But with persistance that is at least recognisably characteristic of him , Borg seems still to be pressing on . |
| 16 | As with centesimal , if we see that the patient 's symptoms are relapsing frequently in spite of repetition , a deeper complementary remedy will be needed , because it 's not the potency that is at fault but the choice of remedy . |
| 17 | So the happiness of God — the happiness that is at the heart of the universe — is in the eternal relationship of the Father , Son and Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | Police determination to control the volume and the effect of picketing made movement around the country and demonstrations at collieries extremely difficult ; ‘ much secondary picketing was prevented from taking place , effectively or at all , by police action rather than the intervention of the civil courts , and it is this factor that is at the heart of complaints that the police broke the strike , or were used to break it ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 148 ) . |
| 19 | Noting a coincidence between the ‘ open structure ’ of adolescence , in which the subject , ‘ in the aftermath of the oedipal stabilisation of subjective identity , … again questions his identifications , along with his capacities for speech and symbolisation ’ ( p. 9 ) , and the ‘ open structure ’ of the novel which explores a similar fluidity , negotiating the ‘ frontiers between differences of sex or identity , reality and fantasy , act and discourse ’ , Kristeva suggests that some form of literary history , that of novelistic discourse , might contribute to the fundamental project of psychoanalysis , that is , ‘ how to understand perversion in a way that is at once faithful and noncomplacent ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 20 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 21 | It is its impact on teachers and their style that is at the heart of the matter . |
| 22 | The point is made : there is a disadvantage to children immediately in the learning by teachers of so much that is at least newly described , if not new in reality . |
| 23 | Partly , this is a matter of teacher supply : in certain areas of the country it is not just the National Curriculum that is at risk — it is any curriculum . |
| 24 | Rather , we claim , it is the political objective of removing local government 's autonomy that is at issue . |
| 25 | The ordering of building materials would help greatly the building supplies industry that is at present in the doldrums . |
| 26 | It is the ability and willingness to make this mental effort that is at the very heart of the success or failure of the human race to create a viable religion . |
| 27 | Some young readers ‘ escape ’ with Enid Blyton , some with The lord of the rings : it is the use made by the individual of the material rather than the kind of material that is at issue here . |
| 28 | For the do-it-yourself bar user it is best to settle for a narrow bar that is at least one millimetre thick . |
| 29 | Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and use to line a 23cm/9in flan tin that is at least 2.5cm/1in deep . |
| 30 | It is the system that is at fault here , and what 1 think is so appalling is the fact that children can be removed from their families and their environment without one single shred of evidence . |