Example sentences of "be a [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOVIES that are a smash hit at the box-office still end up losing millions . |
| 2 | For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn . |
| 3 | This would seem to be unnecessarily pessimistic and may be a conclusion laid at the door of present organisational configurations in our schools . |
| 4 | So Belinda was saying that the market 's a trifle depressed at the moment . |
| 5 | There is a bar situated at the side of the Manor House , adjacent to the old conservatory . |
| 6 | phrases such as ‘ Korea is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan ’ were commonly used to denote Korea 's strategic significance , and of all the varying motivations governing Japanese policy in Asia it was the issue of national defence which was most crucial at this time . |
| 7 | ‘ Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children . |
| 8 | Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children . |
| 9 | THERE IS a notice hung at the side of the stage which reads : ‘ You are in an area where the sound level may exceed 95dba . |
| 10 | Only there was a lady lived at the manor , and she said — come up and see my grandmother and if she 'd look after us , she 'd keep us in clothes and food . |
| 11 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 12 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 13 | This was a conversation overheard at the lunch table : |
| 14 | The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March . |
| 15 | B. A. One time , when I was coming down Commercial Road , there was a crowd gathered at the bottom of Regent Street — you accepted the fact that you had to deal with it — and this crowd had been watching a couple fighting . |
| 16 | This was an heirloom from the time of King Alexander 1 ‘ Philhellene ’ as he was later called ; it was a prize won at the Argive Games to Hera ( SEG xxix 652 , cp. xi 330 = xxx 52 ) . |
| 17 | High up in one corner was a camera aimed at the desk . |
| 18 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 19 | There was a hearse parked at the kerb outside the church and a man in a black bowler hat polishing the bodywork with a yellow duster . |