Example sentences of "be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr and Mrs Chambers were more like proxy parents than servants ; they might be upset at his sending back so much food . |
| 2 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 3 | In general , children under 5 years were more likely to be upset at the birth , but neither sex of the child nor separation at the birth determined the reaction . |
| 4 | It was ridiculous to be upset at all , since she had herself intended to tell Nick she was married as soon as she saw him , or to make sure he saw her left hand on which today she had taken care to wear her wedding ring . |
| 5 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 6 | However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers . |
| 7 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 8 | Day Four : After trying the local wine , most will still be asleep at 7.30am when your cruise slips its mooring and heads for Mainz . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | If we can give tax concessions for unleaded petrol to improve the environment , surely we should not be aghast at the prospect of tax concessions to secure that alarms are fitted in our cars and that some protection is provided to stop a lot of this senseless crime . |
| 11 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 12 | If you 're anything like me , you 'll be hopeless at budgeting money for any length of time . |
| 13 | Leonard should be hopeless at fighting , with no fancy tricks , but courageous all the same . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd be hopeless at anything like that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Let's get it clear , if I 'm going to knock you into shape , you 'll obey orders , answer up smartly when you 're spoken to , and be alert at all times . |
| 16 | Certainly she could be rebellious at times in her nature but she was always quick to re-dedicate herself to what she felt to be God 's will . |
| 17 | QAPACKMAX is the maximum number of QA requests which can be outstanding at any one time . |
| 18 | FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of SSR/SPR Listing Requests which may be outstanding at the same time . |
| 19 | FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of SPR distribution messages which may be outstanding at the same time . |
| 20 | FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of new SSR relation messages which may be outstanding at the same time . |
| 21 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 22 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 23 | Well , you may be right at that … |
| 24 | True or false , it is hard to be depressed at Loch St John 's , particularly if you are a trout fisherman . |
| 25 | It 's not necessarily anti-male prejudice — men are more likely to be full-time at work and less able to look after the kids . |
| 26 | For some reason or other , the money would be scarce at the time . |
| 27 | Women continue to be under-represented at all levels in the trade unions but especially at leadership levels . |
| 28 | The date of unit one might be eleventh-century at least , so how much earlier is unit two ? |
| 29 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't be specific at the moment , sir . |