Example sentences of "[be] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the distance is too far by road , it is impossible to be at both the start and the finish of the race unless you are actually taking part . |
| 2 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 3 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 4 | Two lights are mounted so that when the beams meet he 'll be at just the right height . |
| 5 | All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats . |
| 6 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 7 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
| 8 | ( Each abacus bead will be at either the left or the right of the abacus wire . ) |
| 9 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 10 | A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured . |
| 11 | It would have to be at least , erm , what would it have to be , it would have to be at least the benefit , yes , the benefit would have to be at least four on the , on the B's side , in order for that to work . |
| 12 | Because there are , I do n't know how many sites Tarmac run , but there must be at least the number of sites that they 've ever run divided by two standard ways of planning , Tarmac . |
| 13 | There is a guarantee the return after five years will be at least the amount of the original investment . |
| 14 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 15 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 16 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 17 | The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 . |
| 18 | There were at least the photographs to fall back on . |
| 19 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 20 | You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire . |
| 21 | Items mentioned in the first section are at roughly the same level of difficulty as the chapter they accompany . |
| 22 | If all leaves are at roughly the same depth d , and the number of children per internal node is fixed , say n , then this is 1 + n + n + n + … + n |
| 23 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |
| 24 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 25 | I think probably that is at completely the other end of the spectrum , and would be stifling the natural growth in North Yorkshire and what you would be doing then is is acting against the erm the inhab the existing inhabitant of North Yorkshire because you would probably be forcing them out of their county . |
| 26 | The farmer 's prayer is to have good weather when his crop is at just the right stage to reap ; the ability to judge the state of a crop can come only with considerable experience . |
| 27 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 28 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 29 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 30 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |