Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was at some stage and I lost it . |
| 2 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 3 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 4 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 5 | Four moves later he was at another semi-resting place . |
| 6 | Now we were at 2,000 feet , the grasslands and such trees as there had been were below us . |
| 7 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 8 | There you are at one end of the rope with a bell at the other — and when you pull you 're not sure what is going to happen . |
| 9 | Least they were at that time . |
| 10 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 11 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |
| 12 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |
| 13 | and that 's why I 'm at One House , Wade house . |
| 14 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 15 | I was thinking about Conrie Fraser and wondering where she was at that moment . |
| 16 | ‘ I know why you 're at that school . |
| 17 | Indeed the settlement where we are at this moment , is to be expanded very considerably . |
| 18 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |
| 19 | Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes . |
| 20 | The weapon 's computer thus knows where it is at all times , without relying on any signals from outside . |
| 21 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 22 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |
| 23 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |