Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 2 | … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job . |
| 3 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 4 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 5 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
| 6 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 7 | It is at first glance a paragon of English coastal charm and tranquility . |
| 8 | It is at any rate a sketch of what might be involved in restoring a writer — in this case , the young Pound — to the highly specific social milieu , that of Edwardian England , in which he moved and on which he impinged . |
| 9 | It was at that time the highest innings by anyone until A.E.J. Collins hit an unbeaten 628 in a junior house match at Clifton College in 1899 . |
| 10 | It was at that point the day started to spin badly out of control . |
| 11 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 12 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 13 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |