Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in my experience it 's quite normal for erm a period after the close of the enquiry to be erm given to erm the planning authority or authorities to on other matters which are outstanding at the close of the enquiry , whether it 's two weeks , whether it 's whether it 's very very common , it 's it 's reasonable that the authority should have that opportunity to . |
| 2 | Slow , badly coordinated vector graphics are awful at the best of times , but when they 're trying to convey the scintillating action of such a classic film their inadequacy is more poignant . |
| 3 | These are picture-based at the earlier levels , and text-based at the higher levels . |
| 4 | But you have a reception at the Saudi-Arabian ambassador 's at seven , a meeting with the US Under-Secretary of the Interior about the Little Big Inch Pipeline at eight ; Simon Scher is meeting with you at St-Cloud at nine , and you are due at the duchesse de Quinsac-Plessan 's reception at ten … ‘ |
| 5 | They are due at the Ulster Hall on September 28 and at the Rialto in Londonderry on September 30 and Little Brown Jug , In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade will be ringing out once more . |
| 6 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 7 | The interest rates are low at the present time . |
| 8 | ‘ He is not my lover , ’ Ruth stated emphatically , ‘ but yes , I am upset at the thought of him spending time with Maria Luisa . |
| 9 | You obviously think so and that indicates what I had suspected all along — that you really are upset at the thought of your lover being away with Maria Luisa ; hence your ridiculous outcries and accusations . ’ |
| 10 | Jobs are scarce at the moment , so you 've got to be realistic . ’ |
| 11 | In general , chloride concentrations are high at the edges of the woodland and low in the centre . |
| 12 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 13 | Surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister , and surely what really provoked the rabble opposite to make such a din is that they are embarrassed at the sound of their own policies . |
| 14 | The figures in the table are based on the assumption that you are acceptable at the ordinary rates of premium . |
| 15 | The figures in this table are based on the assumption that you are acceptable at the ordinary rates of premium . |
| 16 | The curtains are light at the window . |
| 17 | Victorian girls ' names like Emma , Daisy , Rose and Jessica are popular at the moment , as are biblical names — Benjamin , Adam , Samuel , Rebecca and Rachel . |
| 18 | For all our bullshit about adventure , most of us are craven at the crutch . |
| 19 | Leeds are OK at the back , it 's all down to the front man not earning his transfer fee basically . |
| 20 | ‘ A ’ level entrants and mature students who wish to join the HND course must enrol for the three-week Conversion Course ( two weeks of which are residential at the Jordanstown campus early in September ) . |
| 21 | The only situation in which I am interested at the moment is the wholly ordinary one of sitting at Joanna 's tiller . |
| 22 | However , how can this phenomenon be illuminated by means of the metaphor of levels of programming language , on which view the ‘ lower activities ’ are inscrutable at the ‘ higher level ’ , given that , after a road accident , say , I can by conscious effort retrain myself to walk properly ? |
| 23 | Hill goes on : ‘ I also have to state that I am staggered at the amount of money that appears to be owing and am at a loss to understand how such a situation has been reached . |
| 24 | The researchers also saw changes in particle distribution and that the changes in auroral formation are different at the centre . |
| 25 | Moving signs , while using some form of sequence information , can either be temporally redundant ( i.e. have position features which are similar at the start and finish of the sign ) or be temporally salient ( i.e. have position features which are different at the start and the finish of the sign ) . |
| 26 | I am delighted at the result of the Flower Gentleman 's visit . |
| 27 | I am delighted at the progress that the industry has made with Government assistance . |
| 28 | And Flanagan , a close friend of Best , added : ‘ I am delighted at the way things have worked out for Nigel — because the fans do n't realise how much pressure he was under when he took the job . |
| 29 | For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit-linked policies to the with-profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time . |
| 30 | In fact , as we now make plans to go home , we are sad at the thought of leaving this country and the people we 've met . |