Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A while ago I considered changing my snookering nickname ( which I am at complete liberty to do , because I 'm the only one who uses it ) , to take account of the New Weather : global warming , and so on . |
| 2 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 3 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 4 | I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system . |
| 5 | If you are at some stage asked to undertake tasks with which you are unfamiliar , your starting point should be to ascertain whether you are , impliedly , obliged to do what is wanted . |
| 6 | Er it 's not difficult at all really Don , I think when you 're at first thing do , it might be a bit of a |
| 7 | His secretary , Shirley , smirks from behind her desk , self-righteous at being at her post before the boss , even though she is at this moment inspecting her face in a compact mirror . |
| 8 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 9 | Every human being makes an imprint on their surroundings because we are at all times radiating energy which is soaked up and stored by items around us . |
| 10 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 11 | 1pm The Commissioners told us we were at perfect liberty to go on shore when we pleased . ’ |
| 12 | Only if they are at that time identified and agreed upon , will they be specific goods . |
| 13 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 14 | Both Iran and Iraq were Muslim countries , both were ripe for economic development , both had significant oil resources being exploited by foreign concessionaires ( they were at one stage to co-operate over the development of a small oilfield straddling the frontier near Kermanshah ) and both had restive Kurdish minorities . |
| 15 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 16 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 17 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 18 | At the end of a long , draggy , boring Friday afternoon , it 's at last time to clear up . |
| 19 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 20 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 21 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 22 | We have no evidence that Vial provided , or indeed could have provided , a three-year course ( apart from that , he was at one point rebuked by the governors for not paying enough attention to his teaching duties ) . |
| 23 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 24 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 25 | He was at that time receiving £210 , together with £20 for coal , £10 for cleaning , and £10 for gardening . |
| 26 | He was at great pains to ensure that the public did not associate his performers with the bad name that dancers usually had . |
| 27 | He was at great pains to comment that ‘ to say that John Bunch ( Locomotive Superintendent ) has too much power is a travesty ’ . |
| 28 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |