Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [is] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 2 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 3 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 4 | ‘ He has had his problems this season with a knee injury to overcome but it is great that he has got where he is at the moment , ’ said Dalglish , who would not even confirm that he will give Paul Warhurst , his £2.7 million signing from Sheffield Wednesday , an Anfield debut . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave , ’ said Major Astle . |
| 6 | Major Astle said : ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave . |
| 7 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 8 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 9 | Where it 's at : Leeds is the third largest city in England , with a population of around three quarters of a million . |
| 10 | To be thoroughly modern , like Millie , is to be ‘ with it ’ and ‘ where it 's at ’ . |
| 11 | And where it 's at is always the latest though ephemeral social and intellectual fashions of the day . |
| 12 | Suitably moved by the warm , fuzzy substances emanating from Kerr 's garage , Mark Arm grabs his harmonica , eases that ever-improving voice up several notches on the pain-ometer and dispenses such homages to excess as ‘ Flat on the floor , flat on my back/Let me tell ya baby I 've found where it 's at , ’ from the scrappy bustle of ‘ Great Down Here ’ . |
| 13 | And there 's a 1970 quote from that seminal magazine Honey : ‘ Fish and chips are Trendy , Where It 's At , Now — like Frank Zappa , Princess Anne , Dougal and Zebedee . ’ |
| 14 | And where it 's at ? |
| 15 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 16 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 17 | Although it is at a disadvantage to the very deep water berths at Tilbury , Hull and Southampton , which can berth vessels of 25–30,000 tonnes , it still handles similar tonnages ! |
| 18 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 19 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 20 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 21 | Even on a cloudless , sunny day , the late afternoon sunlight is much warmer in tone than it is at noon . |
| 22 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 23 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 24 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 25 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 26 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 27 | But this full equilibrium position , at C , is inferior to the one at which inflation is zero and unemployment is equal to its natural rate , point B. This is clear from the fact that both have the same unemployment rate , but point C has a higher inflation rate ; it is also indicated by the fact that at point C the popularity of the government is lower than it is at point B. We therefore have the odd result that the position which is optimal , point B , is not feasible , whereas the position that is feasible is sub-optimal . |
| 28 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
| 29 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
| 30 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |