Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 2 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 3 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 4 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not how much it affected you , it 's the fact that you were affected at all , ’ he said , straightening himself up . |
| 6 | Okay well I know I know you said that you were looking at one or two other things and quite honestly I would expect you to be . |
| 7 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 8 | What that basically means again is that for this particular blank here that we 're look at okay , the state value U might be one the weight might be one okay and we get that out of that cos we 're just going through all these here and seeing which one 's going to be one . |
| 9 | And before I even started , he called me over and he was the sort of person who , when he signalled you over , you tended to go over there , and he said here , it says here on this programme that we 're finishing at four thirty . |
| 10 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 11 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 12 | In other words , awareness that something was happening at national level did not provide workable lines along which local managers could shape their own efforts . |
| 13 | They 're promoting themselves to a very significant extent on the basis that they 're selling at cheaper prices to the public . |
| 14 | Britain grinds out almost five million tonnes of hazardous waste each year , of which about 63,000 tonnes are so difficult to store or treat that they are burnt at high temperatures here in Gwent or at one of three other centres : Ellesmere Port ; Fawley , near Southampton ; and the unfortunately named Killamarsh , near Sheffield . |
| 15 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 16 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 17 | The most surprising feature of the laminated sediments of the eastern equatorial Pacific is that they are preserved at all in such widespread oxygenated deep sea environments . |
| 18 | After the story of the golden calf , and the tales in Numbers of the people 's continued recalcitrance , it is understandable that their God , yearning with such an ancient longing to enjoy requited love , should insist that they be protected at all costs from the allurements of other gods , and other religions . |
| 19 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
| 20 | For instance , some coins of the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander found in Egypt fall into two stylistic groups , and the discovery that each group has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different mints . |
| 21 | Things matter to the extent that they were discussed at considerable length and drafted with particular care . |
| 22 | Edinburgh continues to stock Huckleberry Finn , on the grounds that it 's aimed at older readers , better able to understand the historical context . |
| 23 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 24 | That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team . |
| 25 | Carve one half so that it is mounded at one end and tapering at the other , to form the lid ( see illustration ) . |
| 26 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 27 | Edinburgh continues to stock Huckleberry Finn , on the grounds that it is aimed at older readers , better able to understand the historical context . |
| 28 | An advantage of using the OALDCE is that it is targeted at non-native learners of English . |
| 29 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 30 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |