Example sentences of "be [conj] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
| 2 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 3 | no , what I 'm saying is I think that 's something that the B A I E education committee nationally should sit down and have a look at , I mean it may well be that at the end of the day Napier would set a better exam paper than they would er , also I 've suggested to them and again they have n't that Napier validate the course do the marking but with perhaps two B A I E fellows |
| 4 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 5 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 6 | The problem is that at the beginning of each new year , we either ignore the tradition of making resolutions , or we try to do too much at once and fail dismally . |
| 7 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 8 | What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa . |
| 9 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 10 | The evidence of a child who was taught by the ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ method is that at the age of 5 she is able to talk and play with normal children at a normal school and although she may not be as far ahead , the results of this method seem astounding . |
| 11 | The third reason is that at the time of apparent consent or refusal the patient may not , for the time being , be a competent adult . |
| 12 | Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material . |
| 13 | The other is that at the end of time there will only be the kings of Hearts , Spades , Diamonds , Clubs and England . |
| 14 | This does fulfil the essential of making your hero gain some useful fact from each scene you show him or her in , though the danger for the tyro plotter is that at the end of each interview one more suspect will have simply been " written out " . |
| 15 | The extraordinary factor in such debates is that at the end of them we get the feeling that there is little that we can actually do to alter the course of events . |
| 16 | In fact a more realistic explanation for the laying out of the garden is that at the end of the Napoleonic wars there were alot of unemployed soldiers looking for work . |
| 17 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 18 | What Marslen-Wilson and Tyler propose is that at the onset of a word no reduction of the cohort by context has occurred , and that initial reduction of cohort size depends solely upon sensory input , not context . |
| 19 | However , what might affect it is if at the time of the making of the contract the parties make an agreement about delivery and/ or payment , e.g. that they be postponed . |
| 20 | that out there it is because at the back of my shed , I want to do some I want to tidy that area up . |
| 21 | This is because at the end of the newsreel a roof opens above the screen at the far end of the auditorium and King Kong 's arm appears holding that screaming woman in his great hairy mit ! |
| 22 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 23 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 24 | The result was that at the end of the decade British critics of the BFASS , few as they were , tried to draw together once again . |
| 25 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 26 | The outcome was that at the meeting on 18 November , the Cabinet : |