Example sentences of "that [pron] be at [art] [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 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 4 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 5 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 6 | You move closer , and find that someone is at the bottom of a deep pit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 9 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 10 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A stock of ‘ standard ’ components will not help when an unusual item is ‘ out of stock ’ , and with these you just have to accept that you are at the mercy of the suppliers . |
| 13 | ‘ We are informed that you were at a lecture , on the thirteenth of last month . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 18 | This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere . |
| 19 | And the other thing you have to bear in mind is that at the time the original structure plan was drawn up , they were n't talking about the er the structural employment problems that we are at the moment . |
| 20 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 21 | ‘ Coming in as an outsider probably helped as a bit of a catalyst but really it was the fact that we were at the bottom of the underwriting cycle and everyone was looking to improve results and build up market share . ’ |
| 22 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |
| 23 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 24 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 25 | er , you know , the better it is , and particularly when you look at the the fever that there is at the moment about electioneering |
| 26 | Nor do I think that there are at the moment Committees which cause unnecessary work . ’ |
| 27 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 28 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 29 | Also , I was always under the impression that the likes of Constable , whilst in full knowledge that they were at the top of their profession , regarded themselves as craftsmen . |
| 30 | As to the Scottish electorate , I reassure the hon. Gentleman that they were at the forefront in seeking the abolition of domestic rates and they will be at the forefront in resisting their reintroduction by the Opposition . |