Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 3 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 4 | We both agree that he should be able to offer favourable terms for the hire of the slope for the proposed event , provided it is at an off-peak time . |
| 5 | And it 's at no extra cost that 's all built into the price . |
| 6 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 7 | These are still only ideas and it is at a later stage that they become language . |
| 8 | Learning takes place through successive cycles of assimilation and accommodation ; and it is at the accommodative phase that this clearer vision is needed . |
| 9 | All men at Maidstone are long sentence prisoners , serving more than four years , and it is at the top end of the scale , with life sentence prisoners , that Maidstone performs its second specialist task . |
| 10 | Challenge it and challenge it again until it 's at a bare minimum . |
| 11 | If it is at an elegant dinner table , there is a choice between a fino sherry ( or a manzanilla ) or champagne . |
| 12 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 13 | Cos he 's at no fixed address is he ? |
| 14 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 15 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 16 | But it is at a high price . |
| 17 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 18 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 19 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 20 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 21 | When it was over Janet came into the room and said : ‘ We found a small tumour but you are very lucky because it 's at the preliminary stage . |
| 22 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 23 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 24 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |