Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 2 | Some of them are at best guesses ! |
| 3 | Er some of them are at different se strength er |
| 4 | The company as a whole employs 3,800 people , but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston . |
| 5 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 6 | I am at that crossroads . |
| 7 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 8 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |
| 9 | A while ago I considered changing my snookering nickname ( which I am at complete liberty to do , because I 'm the only one who uses it ) , to take account of the New Weather : global warming , and so on . |
| 10 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 11 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 12 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 13 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 14 | I drift , dither , grope , fumble … and there I am at last , half-dressed in the kitchen with cigarettes and coffee-filters . |
| 15 | I feel I am at last in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 16 | But I I I 'm at early in the morning so me mammy says , Why do n't you try one of the Diazepam that I 've got . |
| 17 | Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence . |
| 18 | but what I , what would be a possibility at sixty two , when I 'm at that point , I 'd be receiving half pay |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ said Brian , ‘ we 're not having a party , but I 'm at one , I 'm at your sister 's . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm at one with John on this . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ I 'm at One fifth Avenue , that 's Spring 7–7000 . ’ |
| 22 | and that 's why I 'm at One House , Wade house . |
| 23 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 24 | You know , you 're at the side of them and one starts to come around , you know , when you 're doing sort of seventy and I 'm at maximum speed , he 's got plenty of you |
| 25 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |
| 26 | That 's right : I 'm at med school . |
| 27 | Federalism in its German form betrays a highly teleological view of politics , and its theorists arrogate to themselves assumptions and imperatives which are at best matters for the Church , but can never be pronounced on by politicians . |
| 28 | The analysis of the effects of social policy by interpreting official statistics remains the favourite method of social commentators , despite now extensive evidence that such an approach relies on social indicators which are at best artificially constructed and at worst downright misleading . |
| 29 | I repeat that the Home Secretary will rely on Bills like this , which are at best irrelevant and at worst unreasonable . |
| 30 | The balance mechanism consists of three semi-circular canals , or small loops which are at right angles to each other , a convenient arrangement covering three dimensions . |