Example sentences of "be a [noun] [vb pp] at [art] " 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 I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition .
8 DSSSL is a standard aimed at an important area , but including this may be a longer-term change as the current draft standard is unusable ( there were 300 pages of adverse comments submitted during the recent international ballot ) .
9 ‘ Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children .
10 Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This was a conversation overheard at the lunch table :
16 The new title ‘ Officer Board ’ , replacing ‘ Consultative and Advisory Council ’ was a decision made at the Special Delegate Meeting in March .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 High up in one corner was a camera aimed at the desk .
20 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 .
21 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 .
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