Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be at " in BNC.

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1 So erm and how we use that money is at our discretion .
2 That decision is at odds with the fact that consumer organisations have been established to monitor larger privatised industries .
3 Vetting of senior commanders : the appointments of Defence Minister , CGS , and Head of the Chief Political Directorate are at least confirmed and may be initiated by Moscow .
4 The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change .
5 each segment is at a different stage of market penetration .
6 The only solid bit was at the front .
7 Reyntiens ' considerable technical expertise is at one with his imagination .
8 THE European parliament is at odds with the Commission and member states over the draft directive covering working conditions for employees sent to another EC country under contract to provide a specific service .
9 True , eligible boys of that faith were at premium .
10 Erm they 're awfully difficult to cast because the art of bronze founding on that level is at least as far as I can see , almost died out , I 'm having terrible I 've terrible trouble with getting bronze cast .
11 That bid is at the final stage of its examination and I expect to be able to make an announcement soon .
12 The hour of Britain 's total defeat was at hand , and Winston Churchill would soon abandon England to preside over the ruins from the safety of his Canadian dominion .
13 From the parallel position to impact and through , the legs , hips and right side are at their strongest in the golf swing .
14 For Franco knew that if the pro-Allied military men had been unable to secure active Allied support for an anti-Francoist coup when negotiations with the Axis for Spanish entry were at their height , their chances of success dwindled even further after June , when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and the focus of the war moved away from Europe 's southern flank .
15 That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths .
16 In fact , neither side was at first attempting to reach the defensive flank of the North Sea ; rather , each was hastening to get around the enemy 's northern flank in the only area where mobile warfare was still possible on the Western Front .
17 This finding is at variance with the findings reported by Edwards ( 1986 ) .
18 Some of the best-known work of this kind is at least analogous to that of court patronage ; the large amount of art commissioned by the Vatican Court is an obvious example .
19 A good example of this kind is at Borraichill Mhor , in Kildalton , where a drystone wall encloses a plateau .
20 A good example of this kind is at Borraichill Mhor , in Kildalton , where a drystone wall encloses a plateau .
21 Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ?
22 In May-October 1905 , when expenditure of this kind was at its height , 200,000 francs of Russian money was being paid each month to about fifty French newspapers , periodicals and press agencies , some of them important opinion-formers — Le Figaro , Le Temps , Le Petit Parisien and the Havas agency .
23 However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 .
24 SCHOOL pupils skipping classes to play with the latest piece of Sonic the Hedgehog software could find another computer is at work to track them down .
25 Adopting a style whose crafted formality is at the other extreme from those promoted by radical groups , Milton is not openly proclaiming his continued rebelliousness .
26 Of course , they 've got out of all recognition today , but three a penny fresh herren were at that time .
27 High tide is at seven in the morning .
28 It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative .
29 This case is at an extreme of its own : fortunately , for it is an unwelcome departure from clear principles and clear thinking .
30 A sign telling parents to keep their children under supervision and a poster stating the exhibition is of lesbian photography are at the gallery entrance .
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