Example sentences of "is at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , an individual is at each moment only a partial manifestation of an identity revealed over time , what physicists call a ‘ sum over histories ’ . |
| 2 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |
| 3 | If you listen to the music on individual programmes you will soon get a fair idea of where the playlist is at each week . |
| 4 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 5 | It is at such times , perhaps , that we wonder about the unconscious effect of what we read . |
| 6 | But some will , and it is at such times that counselling can play an important role . |
| 7 | It is at such times that the independence of the Supreme Court is at its greatest , but they are rather untypical . |
| 8 | If the news was really unexpected she would be off balance and it is at such times that people are most likely to speak the truth . |
| 9 | The Mental Health Act 1983 has stirred up a good deal of argument and controversy , which is , arguably , a very good thing in an area where individual liberty is at such risk . |
| 10 | To square this with interference phenomena it is necessary to suppose the existence of a strange force acting on the electron as it traverses , say , the top slit , whose nature depends on whether the bottom slit is at that instant open or shut . |
| 11 | My standard of tennis is at that level where merely returning a serve constitutes a match highlight . |
| 12 | When the output is at that saturation level for which the diode is biased forward , the capacitor can not charge and the output therefore remains at that saturation level . |
| 13 | It is at that moment that Jesus comes , not as a ghost but as himself , to save them and take away their fear . |
| 14 | It is at that moment celebrity golfers disappear . |
| 15 | Surely , it is at that age that interest has to be aroused because later those subjects will fall on the other side of the divide . |
| 16 | The thing is at that age they often do n't get severe punishment cos they 'll got to either a special place |
| 17 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 18 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 19 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 20 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 21 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 22 | In addition , the German question and the European question are inseparable : ‘ the German question is at all times a European question too . ’ |
| 23 | Norwich Union 's aim is at all times to provide a first class standard of service . |
| 24 | The weapon 's computer thus knows where it is at all times , without relying on any signals from outside . |
| 25 | The subconscious mind is at all times fully protective and will not allow the patient to betray himself by his actions or his words . |
| 26 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 27 | Li Yuan is not to know , but I want us to know where Kim is at all times . |
| 28 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 29 | This need not , however , suggest ( as Saunders sometimes does indeed imply ) that owner-occupation is at all times and in all places an optimum means of gaining control over one 's own life . |
| 30 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |