Example sentences of "[det] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some were at their wit 's end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He/she will tell you how much this is at the beginning so you know at the start how much you have to pay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | But this is at the level of nationalist discourse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
| 15 | But although this is at first appealing , on closer examination the concept is somewhat flawed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is at Johannesburg in south Africa . |
| 18 | This is at least the third CD issued recently of Liszt 's Third Concerto — a genuine work for those who may harbour doubts . |
| 19 | This is at the north-west of the island and is probably the furthest village from Funchal . |
| 20 | And this is at a time when the debate about sexual politics in the press concerns a couple of commercials that allegedly mock men . |
| 21 | While the most common reference is to the underclass of the great cities , this is at least partly because its presence there is the most inescapably apparent . |
| 22 | This is at the opposite extreme from those occupations that are inherently invidious , those that place the individual directly under the command of another , as in the case of the doorman or the household servant , and those involving a vast range of tasks — street cleaning , garbage collection , janitorial services , elevator operation — that have an obtrusive connotation of social inferiority . |
| 23 | This is at its most practical in empathizing sufficiently to collect useful facts about a person but closing oneself to sympathy ; it is at its purest in vanity , basking in awareness from other viewpoints as long as it is of oneself . |
| 24 | Though springing from Genesis , this is at once more ambiguous , more heroic , and more humane . |
| 25 | But as we have seen , this is at the very heart of the problem of the survival of free institutions , because if this policy is pursued it would be impossible to stop the drift to totalitarianism . |
| 26 | This is at variance with some of the sentimentalised exaggerations , conveniently associated with cost saving , about the role and scope of informal care . |
| 27 | Although this is at the bottom of the main menu , it is the first option that you need to select before you can begin to use the program for any serious work . |
| 28 | This is at least untrue in the USA , where there is a comprehensive system of further education for deaf people in which the medium is an accepted form of ASL which hearing instructors use . |
| 29 | This is at the heart of Wittgenstein 's criticism of St Augustine 's account : it is ‘ as if the child could already think , only not yet speak ’ ( PI 32 ) ; as if it were learning , not its native language , but a subsequent one . |
| 30 | This is at least ten times as many as to any other country ( see chart on next page ) . |