Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 2 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
| 3 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
| 4 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 5 | I 'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe . |
| 6 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 7 | Accordingly I was at a front row table for the show when the lights went down . |
| 8 | And a couple of weeks ago I was at a chemical engineering company where the managing director told me that they were now using accountants for their safety experiments instead of rats . |
| 9 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 10 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 11 | Not knowing what was going to happen to me or how rapidly the disease would progress , I was at a loose end . |
| 12 | If you get a poor launch or something unexpected happens , you are at a great disadvantage and are likely to have a problem . |
| 13 | You 're at a romantic stage . |
| 14 | If you were at a right angle If it If it was two right ang er angle lines like that at right angles |
| 15 | You were at a known dealer 's house , so where exactly does that leave you ? |
| 16 | She 's at a crucial point with her own work . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , she 's at a difficult age . ’ |
| 18 | She 's at an impressionable age and she 's mixing with some very odd people . ’ |
| 19 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 20 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 21 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 22 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 23 | Suchocka declared : " After three years of reforms , we are at a turning point . |
| 24 | I think we are at a turning point for this company and the industry . ’ |
| 25 | Secondly , we are at a critical juncture , much as a seriously ill person may reach a ‘ turning point at which the patient either begins to improve or sinks into a fatal decline ’ . |
| 26 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 27 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 28 | They said : ‘ We 're at a fact-finding stage . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 30 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |