Example sentences of "[verb] be at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data creation and data capture are at odds with each other ; the protagonists and the interpreters of history are still at cross purposes . |
| 2 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |
| 3 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 4 | Patrick Phillips has been at loggerheads with the residents of Long Melford over recently-approved plans to divert part of a public footpath which runs along the approach to his Grade I-listed home Kentwell Hall . |
| 5 | Bob Hoskins ' co-star Dennis Hopper has been at loggerheads with Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , demanding script rewrites . |
| 6 | Mr Davies has been at loggerheads with Hambleton District Council over the future use of his hotel in Darlington Road . |
| 7 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 8 | Thus , in much the same way as the Bundesbank chairman , Dr Karl Otto Poehl , has been at pains to preserve the monetary integrity of the new Europe , so the Cartel Office is disturbed about abrogating to Brussels responsibility for all mergers involving a turnover of less than $5billion . |
| 9 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 10 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |
| 11 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 12 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
| 13 | It is for this reason that the CNAA , in approving first degree courses , whose numbers have expanded two-fold since 1974 , has been at pains to devise what it regards as more intellectually vigorous programmes than was the case with the Dip.AD . |
| 14 | His story as it unfolds is at times scarcely credible when we think back to the way things were in Frome in the 1790s . |
| 15 | Although his letter does not deny that Chlothild had a part to play in Clovis 's conversion , nor that the king decided to accept baptism during a battle against the Alamans , in some respects the information it contains is at odds with Gregory 's account and , therefore , with the traditional interpretation of events . |
| 16 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 17 | Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state . |
| 18 | While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession . |
| 19 | The incidence of breast cancer detected is at odds with the government 's claim that its programme has sufficient safeguards . |
| 20 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 21 | Strictly Hardcore is at Legends , and Happy House at Zig Zags . |
| 22 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 23 | The gospels show that discipleship sometimes means being at odds with the State . |
| 24 | Successive holders of this post and of the clerkship of the pells , which had overlapping duties , had been at odds during the previous reign . |
| 25 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 26 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 27 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 28 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 29 | Or rather , as Rachel had been at pains to point out , a misunderstanding of Lamark 's theory of learned characteristics being inherited . |
| 30 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |