Example sentences of "[verb] is at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascal captures the negative side when he writes , ‘ Doubt then is an unhappy state , but there is an indispensable duty to seek in doubt , and thus anyone who doubts and does not seek is at once unhappy and in the wrong . ’ |
| 2 | Recourse to stabbing is at least potentially more open to abuse . |
| 3 | What is needed is at least 100 MPs present to support the Bill . |
| 4 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 5 | This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) . |
| 6 | Mergers have a Community Dimension where : ( 1 ) The combined aggregate worldwide turnover of all the parties involved is at least 5,000,000,000 ( 5 billion ) ECU . |
| 7 | It is dated by Michael Jaffe to around 1605 , although Ann Marie Logan puts is at around 1601 . |
| 8 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 9 | Written dialogue in which , as here , source markers are suspended is at once nearer to and farther from children 's experience than is the form with source markers present . |