Example sentences of "[prep] be at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 2 | His achievement lay in his ability to paint portraits and landscapes of exceptional clarity : the light is translucent and northern , the colours are exquisite and apparently naturalistic despite being at times capriciously combined . |
| 3 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 4 | Finally , he comes to the conclusion that psychopathology plays no causative role in creativity , except in the choice of subject matter , and that where it does exist it stems from social causes ; for example the stress that the person of original mind experiences in being at odds with society . |
| 5 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 6 | There was no getting away from the fact that , as a unit , the Scotland back row were so disjointed as to be at times perilously close to a vacuum . |
| 7 | Anne is known to be at loggerheads with IOC president Samaranch and snubbed the opening ceremony in his home city . |
| 8 | ‘ Sleeping tablets will get you to sleep but can cause hangovers and a bleary feeling , and businessmen often have to be at meetings within half an hour of landing . |
| 9 | Grown-up critics manage to deny its appeal ( probably the very same priapic excitement they derived from rock in their unreconstructed youth ) because it seems to be at odds with their sexual politics . |
| 10 | His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham 's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team . |
| 11 | In some cases , of course , his penchant for doggedness , which seems to have become more pronounced towards the end of his career , appears to be at odds with the spirit of the music . |
| 12 | It might well be of concern to him , for example , if the content of a particular religion proved to be at odds with the ethical criteria he would associate himself with the concept of Truth . |
| 13 | Scheler was anti-positivist and opposed to the ‘ cult of science ’ ( Hamilton 1974 : 75 ) which would appear to be at odds with Stark 's position . |
| 14 | Situations occur where trade union negotiators set targets for achievement of these goals which appear to be at odds with the targets set by management for the organisation ( and its employees ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think it 's a sin to be at odds with Minnie , ’ Carrie declared . |
| 16 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 17 | It seems likely that Fahreddin Acemi was indeed muderris at Murad II 's Darulhadis , but the evidence on this point , which comes from the biography of Molla Ala " al-Din Ali al- " Arabi ( Molla Arab ) , is not altogether firm since Taskopruzade and Mecdi appear to be at odds on the matter . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , this latter conclusion tends to be at odds with more conventional data which suggests that real markets often do not converge to what appear to be their equilibrium values ; an obvious example is the labour market . |
| 19 | And she did n't want to be at odds with him , did n't want him to think her a cheat — only what were the odds on him ever believing otherwise ? |
| 20 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 21 | In a paper of late August 1855 P. A. Valuev , Governor of the province of Kurland on the Baltic coast , deplored the conduct of the war , asked whether the present structure of Russian government facilitated the development of the country 's strengths , lamented the paralysis of the empire 's administration , and deplored the fact that Russian government and society seemed to be at odds with one another . |
| 22 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 23 | This paper argues that marketing is a total concept and has much in common with quality ideas , yet too often they seem to be at odds . |
| 24 | The Government is now proposing that they shall er er that they shall be erm made from a list of persons compiled in accordance with an Order by the Secretary of State and it appears to be being claimed , at least in the press that this somehow is providing for appointments to be at arms length from the Home Secretary . |
| 25 | There they all are : working out the profit on their duty-free ; having more drinks at the bar than they want ; playing the fruit machines ; aimlessly circling the deck ; making up their minds how honest to be at customs ; waiting for the next order from the ship 's crew as if the crossing of the Red Sea depended on it . |
| 26 | The Princess appeared to be at pains to avoid sensationalism as she declined to specify the abuses that the federation is aiming to stamp out . |