Example sentences of "[be] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges .
2 In general , children under 5 years were more likely to be upset at the birth , but neither sex of the child nor separation at the birth determined the reaction .
3 However , as it tends to be dry at the ends , we trimmed off an inch and tamed the frizz with heated rollers .
4 SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch .
5 The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to …
6 If we can give tax concessions for unleaded petrol to improve the environment , surely we should not be aghast at the prospect of tax concessions to secure that alarms are fitted in our cars and that some protection is provided to stop a lot of this senseless crime .
7 FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of SSR/SPR Listing Requests which may be outstanding at the same time .
8 FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of SPR distribution messages which may be outstanding at the same time .
9 FIL file creation time to determine the maximum number of new SSR relation messages which may be outstanding at the same time .
10 For some reason or other , the money would be scarce at the time .
11 ‘ I ca n't be specific at the moment , sir .
12 But existing mean farm size is too small for a vigorous , self-sustaining ‘ take-off ( which was estimated to be possible at a minimum farm size of 1.8 ha ) .
13 Other companies may prefer ‘ bolt-on-on ’ acquisitions to takeovers — buying a division of another group may be possible at a lower multiple than buying a company outright .
14 As the Bill is drafted , such an extension would be possible at a subsequent stage through the Minister of the day introducing the necessary order .
15 Gas-pressure from the reaction would develop steadily over the brief time of contact , and would be greatest at the rear of the zone where the tread was about to lift off .
16 Nevertheless , tropical rain forest may be flammable at the edges , so that savanna may spread .
17 A panel full of increment/decrement wheels and pads can be confusing at the best of times , but in the heat of the moment the effect on a performance can prove more than negative — it can be destructive .
18 They show that the field can be strong at the core surface during transition , that longitude-confined VGP paths are consistent with strongly non-dipolar fields , and , most important , that blocking at the Pacific rim ( as observed in the SV ) can give rise to VGP paths through either of the two longitudes favoured by the data .
19 This would be unstable at a lower Reynolds number than any attached boundary layer , and rapid amplification of disturbances would occur as shown in Fig. 18.6 .
20 For the first year , the warrants will be exercisable at a price about 20% above the share price at the time of the offering .
21 I want to ride as much as I can , but I want to try to be sensible at the same time .
22 Yesterday 's meeting of Sedgefield District Council development sub-committee recommended that the council bar the development because it would be unsightly at the entrance to the town .
23 ‘ But the renovation and running costs would be high at a time when the council is being threatened with poll-capping and its budget desecrated by government cuts , ’ he said .
24 If management can obtain high levels of output from individual workers by designing jobs , such as those on assembly lines , which force people to work hard then output may be high at the expense of job satisfaction .
25 Both tend to be high at the northern edge of the pack ice , over continental and island shelves where turbulence brings fresh resources to the surface , and at boundaries between water masses .
26 Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy .
27 Folly was still confused , but at least there now seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel .
28 As the activation mechanism by CRP-cAMP appears to be different at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters , we have decided to test the binding of the reconstituted polymerases to lac and gal up promoter variants in the presence and in the absence of the CRP-cAMP complex .
29 According to my understanding of , of Labour history , it was er during the war years , at one of the Labour Party conferences , that a NUPE resolution supported by COHSE , actually er brought about some of the , the , the many things that were written within the Beveridge report , and committed the Labour Party to the foundation of the National Health Service that would be free at the points of need for every member of the community .
30 Far from being dogmatic , our objective is to achieve the best possible delivery of health care through a health service that continues to be free at the point of delivery to patients .
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