Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this coup I was disappointed to find at the end of our first month that the shop had made a loss of over three pounds which meant I was n't able to return a penny piece to Daphne . |
| 2 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 3 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |
| 4 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 5 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 6 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 7 | Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York . |
| 8 | Mm and I was just wondering if that is your girl who is due to come at a quarter past six then she erm |
| 9 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 10 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
| 12 | Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes . |
| 13 | I 'M through with all the gentle , kind and witty ‘ sex symbols ’ we 're supposed to fancy at the moment the Angus Deaytons and Kevin Whatelys . |
| 14 | ‘ We were wrong to laugh at the idea of Europeans mastering football , ’ said Chapman in the Sunday Express after the game . |
| 15 | this time we were able to stand at a distance from it all and weigh it up and write better songs . |
| 16 | No one was available to comment at the promoter 's office yesterday . |
| 17 | They are free to evolve at the mutation rate . |
| 18 | Individuals believe that they are able to perform at the desired level ( effort performance outcome ) . |
| 19 | Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time . |
| 20 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 21 | And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder . |
| 22 | During his first march into the west Gorbad broke into many Dwarf tombs and stole the magic weapons they contained , an act of desecration that enraged the Dwarfs but which they were powerless to prevent at the time . |
| 23 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 24 | It 's better to shout at the walls than at the children . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 26 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 27 | So it 's important to reward at the point of the desired behaviour , okay ? |
| 28 | It 's difficult to get at the timbers once you 've insulated , so get the job done properly and carry out the treatment before insulating the loft . |
| 29 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 30 | It 's desirable to lodge at the District Registry an approved estate plan ( two copies ) ; searches by individual buyers can then be made by reference to the plot number alone . |