Example sentences of "be [verb] at the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 2 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 3 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 4 | It has been noted at the NLM that there are an increasing number of end-users — medical practitioners — who are interested in using the MEDLINE system themselves . |
| 5 | The rest are hauling at the crowbars that wind down the press , hobnails gritting on the frosty concrete . |
| 6 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 7 | In particular , prepayments for insurance will be carried at the amount that can be realised on the cancellation of the policy . |
| 8 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 9 | It should be stressed at the outset that maintaining that large companies are social enterprises involves no necessary finding that the root principle beneath the current rules of company law , that companies exist to make profits for the benefit of shareholders , is unsatisfactory . |
| 10 | It must be stressed at the outset that correct identification is the chief problem . |
| 11 | It has to be stressed at the outset that all sites provided some level of economic servicing , which will have originated in several ways . |
| 12 | As Corrigan and Frith ( 1975 ) suggested , we should really be looking at the potential that is expressed in their deviant lifestyles and ‘ resistance ’ activities . |
| 13 | It should be said at the outset that this is not the usual legal meaning of the word . |
| 14 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 15 | On the other hand , despite the tone of much of the political debate in the United Kingdom , it should be said at the outset that questions such as the transfer of powers ( or sovereignty ) to the Community , the direct application and direct effect of Community law , and the correlative theory of the primacy of such provisions of Community law when they conflict with provisions of national law , were all established aspects of Community law when we joined in 1973 , and are not new problems relating to Maastricht . |
| 16 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 17 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 18 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 19 | With a concrete pool it has to be appreciated at the outset that the excavation is going to be considerably larger than the finished pool , for room must be allowed for the layer of concrete . |
| 20 | It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification . |
| 21 | It should be emphasised at the outset that this is an assumption , not an empirically established or necessary truth : what theory dictates should happen in a state of perfect competition may not occur in real , imperfect markets . |
| 22 | It must be remarked at the outset that it is principally between the buyer and seller that rights and obligations exist . |
| 23 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 24 | It should be established at the outset that many large blue-chip companies do not actually use search at all . |
| 25 | What is envisaged is that every client will be informed at the outset that a procedure exists for dealing with " problems " : it is not necessary to mention the word " complaint " at this stage . |
| 26 | Having been brought up as patriots , they were benumbed at the thought that there was to be a conflict between their country and all the beliefs that they held dear . |
| 27 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 28 | Eyebrows are being raised at the fact that the provincial government bought a number of MacMillan Bloedel shares weeks before the announcement of the plan . |
| 29 | They always bid for funerals and I can remember folk on in being horrified at the idea that folk would put a notice in a window . |
| 30 | Its original preferred candidate was Ryzhkov , but fears were expressed at the meeting that if elected Ryzhkov would cede the post to Gorbachev , and it was therefore decided also to nominate Vadim Bakatin , the USSR Internal Affairs Minister . |