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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | quite right , I can easily be at Dave 's Saturday , no problem , I know Dave |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | ‘ She may still be at lunch , ’ she said . |
| 16 | and it might even still be at home but I do n't know where it is , I ca n't find . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd still be at home now if … ’ |
| 18 | Given the prospect that that her father is actually the father of this child do you that she 'll still be at home ? |
| 19 | However , there is also a case for including acts of gross indecency performed on or with girls of 18 years and below who may still be at school and dependent on their parents , since such acts too may be highly damaging . |
| 20 | She 'd been so sure he would still be at La Tour Monchauzet — had steeled herself to meet him again — which made his absence a total anticlimax . |
| 21 | Since the cancers may take several decades to appear , some of those children may still be at risk . |
| 22 | * Some 47 per cent of British soils , vegetation and surface water will still be at risk from acid rain early in the next century , despite the planned 60 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide emissions , according to research conducted for Friends of the Earth by consultancy Earth Resources . |
| 23 | Right , the reason that er an officer would still stay er with an eleven year old child , a three year old child , or t to get to the realms of fantasy a ninety year old person is that person can still be at risk not necessarily from the police officers , but from anybody else in that building and therefore they 've got to remain er in that room until such time as I 'm satisfied that everything is clear . |
| 24 | Neil Kinnock , according to both ITN and the BBC , could still be at Number 10 tomorrow . |
| 25 | Although my husband lost his fight against leukaemia , a part of my heart will always be at Bart 's and I have written a book about his illness to raise money for leukaemia research . |
| 26 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 27 | So long as agriculture is an enterprise carried out in the open air , crops ( and therefore working capital ) will always be at risk . |
| 28 | Are ye telling me ye 'll ever be at home among them ? ’ |
| 29 | As soon as government discovers an alternative way of maintaining an incentive to work , such as reducing unemployment and supplementary benefits to below subsistence level , then child benefit will once more be at risk . |
| 30 | Other mechanisms may also be at work . |