Example sentences of "[adv] [be] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked up quickly , doing nothing to disguise her surprise at the fact that he would only apparently be at OBEX on a part-time basis . |
| 2 | Many children grow up to enjoy satisfactory lives who are clinically termed severely handicapped , yet they would apparently be at risk of being allowed to die due to the severity of their handicap . |
| 3 | A mission mounted jointly by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the International Council of Bird Preservation warned on March 14 that hundreds of thousands of migratory birds , which used the beaches , salt marshes and mudflats of the Gulf as resting places , would shortly be at risk as they arrived en route from East Africa to northern Asia and Europe . |
| 4 | If you use the future tense — telling your subconscious ‘ I will soon be at peace with myself — it will just sit back and wait . |
| 5 | HELP could soon be at hand for Britain 's 500,000 stammerers . |
| 6 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 7 | One is no longer at home anywhere , so in the end one longs to be back where one can somehow be at home because it is the only place where one would wish to be at home : and that is the world of Greece ! " |
| 8 | Keegan will tonight be at Newcastle 's Anglo-Italian Cup game . |
| 9 | Sue Hampton from Quedgeley loves pottering in the garden , but she 'd still sooner be at work . |
| 10 | Where O or S passes are listed in the requirements for entry to a particular faculty or to a specific course , these must normally be at grades 1 , 2 or 3 for S grade , or grade C or better ( 7 or better from 1994 ) for O/GCSE . |
| 11 | which might not be at year end for example . |
| 12 | As Fineman acknowledges , the anecdote may not be at odds with the general sense but , as we observe with New Historicism 's use of anecdote , it is difficult to determine its relation to the general with any satisfaction . |
| 13 | In the case of the atom , this meant that in its lowest energy state the electron could not be at rest in the nucleus because , in that case , its position would be exactly defined ( at the nucleus ) and its velocity would also be exactly defined ( to be zero ) . |
| 14 | The oscillators can not be at rest because then they would have exactly defined positions and moments . |
| 15 | She feared John might not be at home but he was , and was very excited because he had been promised a job . |
| 16 | Anne Diamond explained that she could not be at Torquay because of programme commitments and what she called ‘ another thing ’ , patting her midriff to show that she was heavily pregnant . |
| 17 | KUWAIT will not be at peace until Saddam Hussein is removed , ’ says a Kuwaiti army lieutenant . |
| 18 | The people who have done this will not be at peace for years to come . |
| 19 | Nominations need to stand for at least a week , but MPs will not be at Westminster to vote . |
| 20 | I see no reason why I should not be at Kiawah Island in Captain Bernard Gallacher 's team in September . |
| 21 | You will not be at ease speaking in court if you are conscious of defects in this respect . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the outgoing Master Fellow , could not be at conference because of the serious illness of her sister , so the installation was conducted by her predecessor , . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the auditors can only report on the information which they have been given by the Vendor and if that information is inaccurate ( causing the Accounts to be wrong ) the auditors will not be at fault . |
| 24 | Dry areas would no longer absorb energy , and would not be at risk from the high local power-input . |
| 25 | ‘ You may not be at risk from what is in here . |
| 26 | He dreamed of the bloodied face with the girl 's hair swinging over it , and of Annabel 's children , and then he surfaced again and went for a walk through Covent Garden fruit market , where Mr. Jenkins must already be at work . |
| 27 | For example , an estate agent might say , ‘ The house is situated four miles from the company where you work ( product feature ) which means that you can easily be at work within fifteen minutes of leaving home ’ ( customer benefit ) . |
| 28 | quite right , I can easily be at Dave 's Saturday , no problem , I know Dave |
| 29 | Might not the electrodes , the constraining wires , and the very fact of being observed in a laboratory , not only delay sleep but actually alter the quality of sleep from what it might usually be at home ? |
| 30 | ‘ She may still be at lunch , ’ she said . |