Example sentences of "[noun pl] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 2 | An abstract reaction mechanism , where the chemical reactions are at most second order and give a detailed mass balance when the system is closed , can be reduced to the system [ 40 ] : ( 2.5 ) unc The unc are concentrations of reactants that are held constant , giving an open system , and the hi are rate constants : thus the a and the hi are positive . |
| 3 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 4 | Looking at his reflection a child sees that he has two eyes and one nose , that his mouth is lower than his nose , his ears are at each side of his head . |
| 5 | While the major political parties are at each other 's throats over most areas of policy , they seem to agree on one idea to aid innovation — probably it is from an independent body . |
| 6 | If resources are held at one set of locations and the demands are at another and the costs of transportation are known , how do we allocate the resources most efficiently ? |
| 7 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 8 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 9 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 10 | The bibliographical services officer subsequently ensures that more specialized works not ordered by the areas are at some point put into the stock of the authority as a whole . |
| 11 | Mosquito netting : the nets are at both ends of the tent can be zipped independently of the door flap . |
| 12 | Anyone whose family circumstances are at all unusual should do so . |
| 13 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 14 | The actualizing tendency suggests that even these failing individuals are at all times capable of growth and development , so it is an essentially optimistic view of the human condition , and this is particularly important when working with older people . |
| 15 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 16 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 17 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 18 | On this last point , it is worth emphasizing , in advance of the evidence , that Nietzsche did certainly reject a quantity of material before the final draft , but that few of the " suppressed " passages are at all long and none are strikingly impressive . |
| 19 | But , before she could sort out just what her feelings were at this blatant example of male collusion , Folly found herself being steered towards the revolving doors to the street . |
| 20 | When things were at this interesting stage , to my irritation the senior of the two Waaf officers who were the bane of our lives developed an interest in ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 21 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 22 | For their part Fleischmann and Pons took along one of their palladium cells ( but one that never produced heat — their heat producers were at that moment fully occupied in gathering data ) . |
| 23 | One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies . |
| 24 | The scheme was devised by men for men , since no women civil servants were at that time employed ( Rhodes , 1965 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 25 | The militant socialist minorities were at each other 's throats and were completely disillusioned with the Labour Party . |
| 26 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 27 | One building society chief said the last time interest rates were at this level , Virginia Wade won at Wimbledon and Jim Callaghan was the Labour Prime Minister . |
| 28 | The first GCE O and A level examinations were held in 1951 ( S levels were at that time an essential part of the system as well , since on them depended the award of State scholarships to university candidates , before the days of Mandatory awards ) . |
| 29 | In the ‘ disadvantaged ’ zone , the payments are at half the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone rate , i. e. £22.25 for each beef cow and £2. 12 for each ewe , in this case irrespective of breed . |
| 30 | Its leaders were at each other 's throats . |