Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 2 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 3 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 4 | Again a reflection of technological backwardness because natural disasters can be controlled with a sufficient investment of resources China is n't able to do that , there are plagues of locusts , there is widespread flooding er there are also , by contrast , periods of severe drought , particularly up in the North China Plain which is at the best of times erm a semi-arid region . |
| 5 | Cowslip himself was at the other end of the hall and Hazel realized that he was waiting for him to reply . |
| 6 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 7 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 8 | It 's at a lovely venue it 's at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough . |
| 9 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 10 | One night he was at the old Blackfriars Ring . |
| 11 | It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious . |
| 12 | Under the leadership of Paolo and Laura Mora , they reconstructed portions of fresco such as the ‘ Seraph ’ , shown in the Mantegna exhibition which was at the Royal Academy in London and which opens in New York this month . |
| 13 | This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm . |
| 14 | I saw a white male nearest to us , in in a double bed which was at the other end of the the the bedroom . |
| 15 | Two lovely lads I 'll tell you and that concert tonight going to be er absolute corker it 's at the Royal Concert Hall tonight in Nottingham . |
| 16 | Er our understanding is that er our colleagues the other side of the table wish to reduce the number of consumer households from the level it was at the nineteen ninety one census , which is the figure here , three one seven to zero . |
| 17 | Within an hour he was at the northern boundary of the Waste . |
| 18 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 19 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 20 | Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence . |
| 21 | Anyone on the list who was at the infamous away games at Stoke where we got battered in 2 successive seasons ? |
| 22 | In ritual status they were at the very top of the system and ranked higher even than the kings . |
| 23 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 24 | Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls . |
| 25 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 26 | As she made her way to the blue and white tiled bathroom which was at the other end of the house , there was another clap of thunder and the lightning flashed again . |
| 27 | I cycled to his house which was at the bottom end of Debenham and was right next to the River Deben . |
| 28 | And we will be playing from the tee which is at the front left hand corner . |
| 29 | They may stand outside of high fashion , but in context they are at the leading edge . ’ |