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

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1 The interest rates are low at the present time .
2 The figures in the table are based on the assumption that you are acceptable at the ordinary rates of premium .
3 The figures in this table are based on the assumption that you are acceptable at the ordinary rates of premium .
4 They are alarmed at the sustained physical effort of the Broomfield players and the manner in which they battle for possession .
5 Nevertheless , because SCs and other structures such as nucleolar organizing regions ( NORs ) and attachment plaques are visible at the light microscope level when silver staining is used , a number of authors have devised methods for LM analysis ( 40 ) , or for sequential LM and EM investigation ( 41 ) .
6 Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom .
7 ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following .
8 Greeks have never been good at the plodding job , even in their classical prime ; Demosthenes was not the only one to complain of that .
9 In the same paper the authors summarise geochemical studies which suggest that the younger Westphalian beds are at the wet gas stage of maturity , but that the Westphalian A , the Namurian , the Dinantian , and the Devonian are all at the dry gas stage .
10 Although no separate figures are yet available on short-term care facilities , the consensus is that they are inadequate at the present time .
11 CD trials , with teachers who are new both to the unit and to the computer system , are important at the present time because most teacher users will be in this category .
12 Sir — I am concerned at the cavalier way in which the copyrights of scientific papers are handed over to commercial publishers .
13 He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out .
14 Party leaders are concerned at the growing gap between Communists active in parliament in Warsaw , and those in the provinces who have been slow to catch on to the change .
15 EVER since the US presidential election , the news and social commentators have been busy at the old old story of explaining the use of words by the Americans .
16 The ARFU has been concerned at the falling standard of sevens , particularly with the World Cup Sevens to be played in April next year at Murrayfield .
17 Apart from children , the other groups most vulnerable to accidents in the home are those at the other end of the lifespan , the elderly , particularly those in the over 75 age group .
18 The carers are angry at the new charges , brought in under Care in the Community , which are well above neighbouring authorities .
19 That to the bottom left is badly drawn at the base , the foot is crooked and the gadroons are smaller at the left than to the right .
20 The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to …
21 Both tend to be high at the northern edge of the pack ice , over continental and island shelves where turbulence brings fresh resources to the surface , and at boundaries between water masses .
22 Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged .
23 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
24 … the correct comparison is not with any man but with an hypothetical man who would also be unavailable at the critical time .
25 Mr de Klerk said he had considered appointing a black minister , but had concluded that such a step would be counter-productive at the current delicate stage of negotiations .
26 Letters , Postcards , Small Packets , Printed Papers , Newspapers and Periodicals should be pre-paid at the European Forces mail rate .
27 Letter mail to Canadian and US Forces not covered by either of the addresses shown above should be pre-paid at the full civilian postage rates appropriate to the country of destination .
28 The EMF would issue hard ecu deposits or notes in exchange for national currencies and set interest rates on hard ecu , initially on the interest bearing deposits it took , largely from commercial banks , and later " by the normal central banking techniques , namely through the creation of money market shortages which would then be relieved at the chosen interest rate " .
29 Faye had said last night that she would be welcome at the informal gathering , but , ‘ I 'm planning to visit my family , ’ Belinda had explained truthfully , after politely declining the invitation .
30 He did n't know who he was talking to , but believed , from films he had seen , that R.C. priests drank whisky and told long stories ; that could be useful at the present juncture .
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