Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of compartmentalization has been roundly denounced by Bob Jones University and those sections of American fundamentalism with which Paisley is most at home but we will never know if his religio-political system would permit such pragmatism because the constitutional issue so overrides everything else in Northern Ireland that there is no expectation or need for him to work with conservative Catholics . |
| 2 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 3 | It is most at home in a coldwater tank , although it was popular in tropical tanks before the wide range of plants we have now was available . |
| 4 | Ostensibly a social misfit , he is most at home with his new books , old records and middle-aged pet Labrador . |
| 5 | He offers his own experiences to support Tommy Dewar 's maxim that ‘ The Scotch whisky distiller is only at home when he is abroad ’ . |
| 6 | For the belief that ‘ there is no occasion too small ’ is naturally at home in a society that resists any ranking of certain human and civic occasions below or above certain others . |
| 7 | It returns to the sea to lay its eggs , but otherwise it is entirely at home on land . |
| 8 | The Ariston CD3 is , in the end , just another player , and although I have tried to highlight its special attributes , there will be listeners and systems for and with which the Ariston is less at home than it was here on test . |
| 9 | As every parent knows , children 's eating habits can be unpredictable and when your child is away from home it is difficult to be sure what they are eating . |
| 10 | Substitute care while a child or young person is away from home , must continue to provide for the child 's overall development . |
| 11 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 12 | In this way , nineteenth-century imagery is comfortably at home in the factual discourse , describing , not the imperial system ( which ‘ we ’ in our wisdom gave away ) , but contemporary international capitalism . |
| 13 | Crilly does not feel alienated by my visits to the Heath , though he confesses to missing me by day and he is usually at home when I return . |
| 14 | The thirty year old is still at home . |
| 15 | Lowther , who regularly pops up at advertising awards ceremonies and is more at home in the pony-tailed world of agency ‘ creatives ’ than nervy politicians , penned the Tories ' election broadcast on defence . |
| 16 | Such occasions are not the rule though , for their whole design suggests a fish that is more at home when his hollow belly is gripping the bottom and the surging current is pushing down on his drooping snout and coursing past his streamlined body . |
| 17 | Graeme , a town-bred Yorkshireman , is more at home on the kitchen range than on the prairie . |
| 18 | The plant is more at home in marshy conditions than in the aquarium , where it will grow to a considerable height . |
| 19 | It works quite well in that he is more at home in wide positions than Speed , but not being left-footed means he cuts back usually . |
| 20 | The man who is more at home on the classical stage is getting to pay a tribute to his idol at the Ulster Hall . |
| 21 | The researcher who is really at home as one of the natives must seek inside himself to create his ‘ remote areas ’ ( E. Ardener 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 23 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 24 | She is perfectly at home among the painterly detritus of her St John 's Wood studio , the walls of which are lined with ancient reference books about art , the legacy of a former tenant . |
| 25 | Her owners run boarding kennels so the pig is perfectly at home with dogs . |
| 26 | Her owners run boarding kennels so the pig is perfectly at home with dogs . |
| 27 | " By God , neither is here at home " ) |
| 28 | The 1360cc 85bhp all-alloy engine is free-revving yet willing in the mid range and , combined with a close-spaced , slick-shifting five-speed gearbox , makes for a car that loves to be driven hard but which is equally at home trickling through town . |
| 29 | Frequent long motorway journeys are a feature of the Kings ' life , and while the larger and more powerful 405 is favoured for these trips , the 305 is equally at home on the school run or the motorway . |
| 30 | It is equally at home in any international cuisine . |