Example sentences of "[adv] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 2 | These ancestors have long since been at rest , but during their time around Pelynt there was between them bitter jealousy , treachery and hatred , leading even to murder . |
| 3 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 4 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 5 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 6 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 7 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 8 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 9 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 10 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two of the three brothers only were at home , and one of her sisters , who hung on our every word . |
| 13 | Dollar expenditure on tobacco alone is at present ten times that on timber . |
| 14 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 15 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 16 | Someone 's got to tell her the boy 's not been at school , is n't at home , ’ Gabriel said , as if that was what it was all about . |
| 17 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 18 | but he , he , I mean we 've not seen him he 's been away four years , I know he 's been coming home first , for holidays , visit , but he 's not been at home because , well we moved into that house , if you remember we moved |
| 19 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 20 | Even if you decide you have not been at risk in the past , you seriously need to consider safer sex to protect yourself and your partners in the future from HIV . |
| 21 | Just been at work . |
| 22 | Dr Goodson-Wickes warned : ‘ The high standards which have been foresaken elsewhere are at risk because of the reduction in battalions from eight to five . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If you use the future tense — telling your subconscious ‘ I will soon be at peace with myself — it will just sit back and wait . |
| 25 | HELP could soon be at hand for Britain 's 500,000 stammerers . |
| 26 | 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 ! " |
| 27 | Sue Hampton from Quedgeley loves pottering in the garden , but she 'd still sooner be at work . |
| 28 | which might not be at year end for example . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The oscillators can not be at rest because then they would have exactly defined positions and moments . |