Example sentences of "[adv] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 2 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 3 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 4 | The 12 member country heads of government attending the Maastricht meeting had all been at the Rome summit and at Luxembourg in June 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] . |
| 5 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 6 | Even if it were possible to draw such a distinction satisfactorily , the advantages of doing so are at the moment not at all clear . |
| 7 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 8 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 9 | Such a positive-sum game must be contrasted with a zero-sum game in which the game to some can only be at the expense of others . |
| 10 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 11 | It will only be at the end of time that God 's glory will be fully visible in the church . |
| 12 | QA activities may not necessarily only be at the end of the implementation phase . |
| 13 | The evidence from the case studies suggests that while change will occur it will only be at the margins , but this may be enough to achieve significant behavioural change in service providers . |
| 14 | The header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 15 | The module header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 16 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 17 | Make sure the water the fish arrive in is at the same temperature as the pool before they are released . |
| 18 | The house he lived in was at the end . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 21 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 22 | I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door . |
| 23 | However , constitutional theory has not been at the heart of modern social science research . |
| 24 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Pay has not been at the top of the teachers ’ agenda but this derisory increase will push it high up their list of grievances . ’ |
| 26 | The first two types of educational computing in the list above are at the moment basically the province of such departments — but it is good to know that in many schools and colleges there are strong links with mathematics . |
| 27 | ‘ By 9.30 I would have expected him to have already been at the dinner party , ’ Mr Reenan said . |
| 28 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 29 | We 'll soon be at the station , and it 'll be noisy enough there . ’ |
| 30 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |