Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 2 | I think the fact that I was abroad at the time may have had something to do with it — having left the country I 'd also left my conscience behind . |
| 3 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 4 | –What a lucky chance that you are here at the station . |
| 5 | But I honestly do think that we are probably at the very bottom of the list for help for women amongst the 12 EC countries — we are certainly regarded so in Europe ’ . |
| 6 | It 's nice and , nice and near , we need not be all the hours that we are sometimes at the other places need we ? |
| 7 | It should be remembered that we are only at the beginning and there are many varying factors yet to be confronted ; how much energy is used when recycling paper compared to using new stock ? |
| 8 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | " The Ingard board must know that they are nearly at the end of the road . |
| 10 | You use the same kind of glass , you put the same amount of ice in each glass and you leave them both in the same place ( so that they are both at the same temperature ) . |
| 11 | It is precisely because black workers have been kept away from these structures that they are now at the forefront of what has become one of the most political dispute in industrial history . |
| 12 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
| 13 | Yanto lay back and reflected with satisfaction that they were now at the end of April , and there would be no big tides worth talking about until August at the earliest . |
| 14 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 15 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 16 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |
| 17 | And far from showing that the couple is going out of fashion in France , he feels his research demonstrates that it is still at the centre of people 's dreams . |
| 18 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 19 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagine , ’ Mr Renfrew said unexpectedly , ‘ that it was only at the end she felt the need . ’ |
| 21 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 22 | He lifted his eyes and saw that he was almost at the top . |
| 23 | Then , it seemed hours later , when he sensed or smelt or somehow divined that he was almost at the road , there came , as likely as not out of his own imagination , the delicate sound of an indrawn breath . |