Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are only obliged to pay at the London venue . |
| 2 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 3 | You are thus unable to look at the great outside and feel you are missing something . |
| 4 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 5 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 6 | As I said earlier , we are also able to look at the successes being achieved by other trust status hospitals elsewhere . |
| 7 | Perhaps we should not be so ready to sneer at the Close Brethren who deny unbelievers access to their domestic table , when we often do not share our holy table with believers . |
| 8 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 9 | He said he said erm he thought people might be less willing to speak at the meeting if they knew it was being recorded , which seems entirely reasonable . |
| 10 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 11 | Perhaps the scarcity is of trombonists keen to seek the front of the platform — it may be more appealing to lurk at the back , menacing one 's colleagues from behind . |
| 12 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 13 | report and the management accounts because there are a number of things which have since , since these minutes er completed and we 'd like to bring up in the report but er I think that we 'd be as well to look at the |
| 14 | It might be as well to differentiate at the outset between the direct and the indirect effects which test-case litigation might be expected to achieve in promoting a change in the law on tax diversion . |
| 15 | As long as I know that I 'm right er and say well I 'm quite willing to look at the figures that you 've been given , but these are the figures that are right but I will look at them erm and I , and I certainly would n't er confront it much more than that . |
| 16 | Actually it must be quite interesting looking at the development of language as time goes on . |
| 17 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 18 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps not , but I 'm too tired to quarrel at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No , you 're not , you 're exhausted , and you are n't fit to work at the moment . |
| 21 | He would enjoy it more , though , if he were not obliged to read at the same time , in the rear windows of other cars , crude reminders of a more basic sexuality . |
| 22 | Angelica 's eyes were just visible staring at the wall , unblinking . |
| 23 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , it is rather difficult to tell at the moment because it 's nearly dark , is n't it ? |
| 25 | There were undoubtedly much larger herds of wild asses in the past and as for black and white markings being impossible on shaggy , cold-country coats it is only necessary to look at the shaggy-coated skunks and pandas to see that this is really not a problem . |
| 26 | To realize this it is only necessary to look at the current pattern of ownership of the press , television and radio outside public-sector broadcasting . |
| 27 | The option is clearly to the advantage of the developer , in that : there is low initial capital commitment there is opportunity to resolve problems and obtain planning approval The faces less competition than would be found if the land was sold at auction or tender if the scheme is abandoned the option need not be exercised On the other hand problems can arise where there is a substantial downturn in the market and it is not viable to proceed at the price agreed in the option agreement . |
| 28 | With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred . |
| 29 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |
| 30 | Alternatively , it could be simply a collection of modules which it is temporarily convenient to modify at the same time . |