Example sentences of "not be at " in BNC.

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1 The poem does convey a message , though the message can not be at every point decoded .
2 Hucknall will not be at full strength , though , when they visit Pickering in Yorkshire in the FA Vase tomorrow — and closer scrutiny of their Talk of the Town explains why .
3 He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words .
4 KUWAIT will not be at peace until Saddam Hussein is removed , ’ says a Kuwaiti army lieutenant .
5 ‘ British Airways will not be at all pleased with me. ’
6 Now the teacher entering this role may not be at all clear which of these or mixture of these or other structures is going to be appropriate .
7 This could well relate to the design of the hospital bed which may not be at the same height as the one with which the patient is familiar .
8 Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so .
9 Dry areas would no longer absorb energy , and would not be at risk from the high local power-input .
10 Still , you will not be at a loss for conversation with such an unusual choice .
11 Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged .
12 ‘ You may not be at risk from what is in here .
13 Nominations need to stand for at least a week , but MPs will not be at Westminster to vote .
14 But very obviously our traveller 's decision would not be at all like that .
15 A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’
16 The overriding aim is to increase the value of the reports by providing more information , but this should not be at the expense of clarity .
17 They missed the train connection in Glasgow which meant that they could not be at the hotel by seven o'clock .
18 You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying .
19 It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case .
20 In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful .
21 ‘ But weeding out false claims should not be at the expense of prejudicing genuine claims . ’
22 In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable .
23 Opinion polls may not be at their peak of credibility , in the wake of the election predictions .
24 I find it sad that Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie , Britain 's number one tennis players , will not be at the Olympics
25 If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic .
26 Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence .
27 Taking the early batches of eggs or fry away may interfere with the parents ' ability to raise later batches , so I leave a few batches with a new pair until they get the knack , which may not be at the first attempt .
28 But there is little room for a comprehensive view , though it gives the generalists a basis for comparisons which may not be at first apparent .
29 The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable .
30 But this policy of buying time should not be at the expense of those young people who are currently losing out at school .
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