Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protozoans most likely to be encountered are Ichthyobodo , Chilodonella and Trichodina , all of which are at their most dangerous in early spring , as they are more temperature-tolerant than their hosts , and can soon overwhelm a Koi coming out of semi-dormancy . |
| 2 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive ( which is headed by a President elected for four years , at present a Republican ) , the legislative branch ( Congress , which comprises a Senate of 100 members and a House of Representatives of 435 members , both of which are at present controlled by the Democratic Party ) and the judicial branch ( headed by the Supreme Court ) . |
| 3 | Also associated with the Orpheus mosaic at Withington are geometric pavements , which feature interlaced circles ( mosaic F ) , chequers ( mosaic B ) , perspective boxes ( mosaic C ) , and relieved swastika meander ( mosaic E ) — all of which are at present at Newton St. Loe ( Rainey 1973 , pI . |
| 4 | The main events are at 12.25 ( women ) and 1.30 ( men ) in a day 's programme comprising 12 races , the first of which is at 11.05 . |
| 5 | Our editorial secretary Sue has three goldfish in her two foot bank , one of which is at least twenty years old . |
| 6 | The carriage of the coal used at these quarries , the consumption of which is at present some 600 or 700 tons per annum , would also produce considerable revenue . |
| 7 | Generally , provisions must be made for access to and within any storey , the floor of which is at , or about , ground level . |
| 8 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 9 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 10 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 11 | One from Bath records the restoration of a vandalized religious shrine by G. Severius Emeritus ; he probably controlled a wide area including perhaps the nearby port at Sea Mills , although the situation may be more complicated , since Bath lay close to an imperial estate , the headquarters of which were at Combe Down just outside the town . |
| 12 | I understand that , but the substance of what is at stake in this election is the policies that the parties put forward … ’ |
| 13 | All these questions become acute , and unless we have a clear understanding of what is at stake we may quickly go under and revert to the low expectations for church life that have perhaps characterised our previous experience . |
| 14 | Here is a simple illustration of what is at issue . |
| 15 | The Further Education Unit offers us four headings : examination of what is at stake in a given issue ( including vested interests and decision-making procedures ) ; experience of membership of a decision-making group ; background knowledge of national and local government ; and personal legal rights . |
| 16 | Land use planning decisions also generate a considerable volume of litigation , once again partly because of the value of what is at stake and partly because of dissatisfaction with the system of planning appeals . |
| 17 | These examples show that the value of what is at stake and the availability of alternative remedies can both have an effect on the likelihood that the courts will be asked to review particular government decisions . |
| 18 | But although the realm of political forces and their support blocs — the realm of political agency — remains to be investigated , the foregoing analysis of the economic class structure does yield certain implications in terms of what is at stake in socialist transformation . |
| 19 | While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail . |
| 20 | The unique insights of each are not lost , for in order to have a less inadequate appreciation of what is at the heart of reality we need to affirm all insights . |
| 21 | Still , Newbolt at any rate was able to understand something of what was at stake . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is surprising how often local builders simply took advantage of what was at hand . |
| 23 | Secondly , to the instinctive political sense of the electorate , which , all too well aware of what was at stake , itself took charge of the situation , regardless of underlying allegiances , and saved the day , also leaving Labour in a state of profound shock . |
| 24 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |
| 25 | part of what was at issue was the nature of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ explanation ’ themselves . |
| 26 | But the significance of what was at stake in this shift in terminology needs to be spelled out . |