Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London . |
| 2 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 3 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 4 | A useful test is to imagine that you are at a party and someone asks you what you are writing about : your answer will have to be short , coherent and sufficiently interesting to hold the attention of a listener who does not have to listen to you . |
| 5 | ‘ We are informed that you were at a lecture , on the thirteenth of last month . ’ |
| 6 | That concentrated evil , that supreme almost supernatural cruelty , teaches us that we are at a parting of the ways , man 's salvation or man 's destruction . |
| 7 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 8 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
| 9 | So it 's excellent here , but we know that it 's at a variable , and I think the problem that you were probably facing is how do you secure a a better rate than that . |
| 10 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 11 | that he was at a meeting where Margaret Thatcher was speaking , and he erm made a comment about what the people in his constituency perceived about something , and she got up and said ‘ now that 's totally wrong ’ . |
| 12 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 13 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |