Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are only obliged to pay at the London venue . |
| 2 | You are thus unable to look at the great outside and feel you are missing something . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 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 | As with people , language can be extremely difficult to learn at an older age . |
| 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 | A contract may be written or verbal , but the intention of the verbal form may be more difficult to determine at a future date . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
| 21 | It could also sustain redistributive policies that might be very difficult to operate at a lower level . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps not , but I 'm too tired to quarrel at the moment . ’ |
| 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 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |
| 28 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 29 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 30 | Alternatively , it could be simply a collection of modules which it is temporarily convenient to modify at the same time . |