Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 2 | He finds time to talk to her and tell her what 's going on so that she 's never at a loss to deal with any situation . |
| 3 | But then this theory confesses that it is completely at a loss as to how the image can possibly be received by the brain . |
| 4 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |
| 5 | And far from showing that the couple is going out of fashion in France , he feels his research demonstrates that it is still at the centre of people 's dreams . |
| 6 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 7 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 8 | The only benefits that seem to have been suggested is that their proposals are better than what 's there at the moment , er Grant Developments must be aware that there is a , an approval , a current planning approval for the development of that site , which is a development to retain the existing bungalow and develop the existing bungalow , and to build a house in the rear . |
| 9 | We have cousins in Provence and she is there at the moment . |
| 10 | Blur provide the music on MARK GOODIER , and there 's more at the same time tomorrow . |
| 11 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 12 | and it 's also at the level just like a round the corner and hold a conversation . |
| 13 | Last winter round here there was nothing more alarming than a little cat-ice in the margins , gone by midday , and it 's now at the stage where I think advice on constructing insulating entire pool covers may have been overtaken by the global weather pattern . |
| 14 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 15 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
| 16 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 17 | I mean if it 's right at the back it does n't matter if it 's black or red . |
| 18 | No he 's not hiding cos he 's just at the back . |
| 19 | Well it better have cos it 's right at the back of the kiln at the bottom and I do n't |
| 20 | This study focuses on an area of research which has received little attention in the past , but which is now at the forefront of the thinking of the relevant military planners . |
| 21 | But he is still at the school . |
| 22 | ‘ But he 's away at the moment , so Mr Tucker says . ’ |
| 23 | " You ca n't see Andrew Stavanger , because he 's away at the moment . |
| 24 | While it is still at a safe height , apply back cyclic to flare the model into level flight and simultaneously add power to return to the hover position . |
| 25 | Suppose that on the basis of the observations at T 1 , we select a group of children of low reading ability for experimental remedial education , X. Even if X is useless , a child 's performance at T 2 can not ( or is unlikely to ) deteriorate since it is already at an extreme low but , through chance variation , it may move upwards giving an overall appearance of improvement . |
| 26 | But at all I mean , you know , you can get people very embarrassed when whoever is there at the B T ! |
| 27 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 28 | Some suggestions a that membership should be mandatory for those holding R Y A positions and appointments , well , that is certainly up for future debate but I do look forward to the day when our membership is truly representative at the individual level as it is currently at the club level and we w should n't forget that the R Y A is its membership . |
| 29 | Fael-Inis continued to play without ceasing , and the music spun and shivered and soothed , and across the slanting features there was a look of the utmost concentration now , for it is only at the invitation of a Mortal that the Lad of the Skins can enter a house and do his terrible work . |