Example sentences of "[adv] be at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it were possible to draw such a distinction satisfactorily , the advantages of doing so are at the moment not at all clear . |
| 2 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 3 | It will only be at the end of time that God 's glory will be fully visible in the church . |
| 4 | QA activities may not necessarily only be at the end of the implementation phase . |
| 5 | Such a positive-sum game must be contrasted with a zero-sum game in which the game to some can only be at the expense of others . |
| 6 | The header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 7 | The module header need not necessarily be at the beginning of the file . |
| 8 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 9 | The house he lived in was at the end . |
| 10 | I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door . |
| 11 | However , constitutional theory has not been at the heart of modern social science research . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Pay has not been at the top of the teachers ’ agenda but this derisory increase will push it high up their list of grievances . ’ |
| 13 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 14 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 16 | Secrecy confers power on those who know the secret while those who do not are at a disadvantage . |
| 17 | The first two types of educational computing in the list above are at the moment basically the province of such departments — but it is good to know that in many schools and colleges there are strong links with mathematics . |
| 18 | ‘ By 9.30 I would have expected him to have already been at the dinner party , ’ Mr Reenan said . |
| 19 | Yesterday , Miss Emily Grenfell had momentarily been at a loss , wanting to know where her fiance was and realizing to her dismay that his safety was in the hands of the shoemaker 's daughter . |
| 20 | We 'll soon be at the station , and it 'll be noisy enough there . ’ |
| 21 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 22 | Respectable England was haunted by the feeling that ‘ the safety of society would soon be at an end ’ and that the ‘ dangerous classes ’ were gaining the upper hand because of the weakened authority of the law . |
| 23 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 24 | Because it could n't wait until lunchtime and that , that 's perfectly understandable because he wants to feel in control of what 's going to happen to some degree , rather than just be at the mercy of someone else 's position . |
| 25 | Er you see when I was , this would just be at the start of the First World War , oh damn I have n't put a switch in have I ? |
| 26 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 27 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 28 | Still , you will not be at a loss for conversation with such an unusual choice . |
| 29 | The poem does convey a message , though the message can not be at every point decoded . |
| 30 | They missed the train connection in Glasgow which meant that they could not be at the hotel by seven o'clock . |