Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There you are at one end of the rope with a bell at the other — and when you pull you 're not sure what is going to happen . |
| 2 | So there are plenty of ways of disposing of little amounts Every bit you dispose of from your capital every hundred pounds saves forty pounds in tax , if you 're at that sort of level . |
| 3 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 4 | We 're at one millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 5 | We were At that time of day the minima the minimum wage was fourteen shillings a day . |
| 6 | Many patients with substantial deformities remain asymptomatic , but they are at increased risk of neurological damage with the passage of time . |
| 7 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |
| 8 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |
| 9 | However , interventions with other agencies and community development may be as relevant at this stage as they are at earlier levels of intervention . |
| 10 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 11 | They were at that stage of going out that was n't yet a Relationship . |
| 12 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 13 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 14 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
| 15 | It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music . |
| 16 | It is at this stage of our discussion that a little physics comes in useful . |
| 17 | It is at these stages of the process that the professional judgement and experience of the assessor and her/his ability to exercise a range of analytic and negotiating skills is of fundamental importance . |
| 18 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 19 | It was at this moment of increasing daily use that the most profound lifestyle changes were perceived by the interviewees . |
| 20 | It was at this stage of the process that the perception of the fieldworker as ‘ alright ’ became important . |
| 21 | It was at this stage of my search that I started to find lead weights . |
| 22 | He was at one end of the largest burrow he had ever been in ; sandy , warm and dry , with a hard , bare floor . |