Example sentences of "[pron] is at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The area of the interface is about 650 2 , which is at the lower end of the range observed for molecules that exist as dimers .
2 Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence .
3 It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift .
4 This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period .
5 Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand .
6 Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’
7 It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' .
8 The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival .
9 The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced .
10 It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious .
11 Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls .
12 Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world .
13 This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm .
14 Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space .
15 Now I 'm working to save the earth , ’ says Mitsu Kimata , who is at the sharp end of Body Shop 's thrust into Japan .
16 A tendon injury in her left hand makes last year 's winner Marie-Laure de Lorenzi , from France , an absentee this week , while Alison Nicholas , the 1987 winner , who is at the qualifying school in America , is also missing .
17 The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not .
18 Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer .
19 Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave .
20 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 .
21 I do my best to be totally honest and fair , whoever is at the other end .
22 In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government .
23 There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road .
24 So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings .
25 It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found .
26 For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session .
27 This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture .
28 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 .
29 Above all , it is at the European level that expanding aid programmes could be devised to stimulate a widening of trade and recovery in the south and east .
30 Learning takes place through successive cycles of assimilation and accommodation ; and it is at the accommodative phase that this clearer vision is needed .
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