Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Forest Eyre in January the judges deprived Robert of his wardenship , which was henceforth to be at the disposal of the Crown . |
| 2 | The car would of slowly slowed down to be at the speed that the engine |
| 3 | To the great credit of the Conservative Government , the opportunities and aspirations of our people have been transformed ; but only by being at the heart of Europe , in the words of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , can we realise our full potential . |
| 4 | It was just like being at the cinema , but it 's just like being , it 's just like being in the room again , because of the conversation 's back . |
| 5 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |
| 6 | Even that auguste paper , the T and A , in the editorial , recently stated , we can not afford the extravagance of going along just to see the party , just to be at the party . |
| 7 | Not to be at the lord 's table , but to be boarded by fixed daily wages . |
| 8 | It is rather like being at the Court of Elizabeth 1 . |
| 9 | Fund accounting is merely one more attempt by accountants to report on a complex reality more sensitively ; although this seems inevitably to be at the expense of general understandability . |
| 10 | ‘ The magazine side of our publishing is perhaps the most flexible in design terms , ’ says Peter Brigg , ‘ but we do n't set out to be at the cutting edge of fancy design . |
| 11 | HAPPY Prince Andrew has a ball on the golf course … unaware that he is about to be at the centre of a new royal taping scandal . |
| 12 | Instead of being at the top , they were being concentrated in middle management , where all the hard detailed work had to be done . |
| 13 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 14 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |