Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 2 | Richard come back where you were at this side . |
| 3 | where they 're at one and two thousand people working for them , I ca n't see that ever coming back , you know like the ? |
| 4 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A steady eighty miles an hour and where it was at these times . |
| 7 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 8 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |
| 9 | They were all very heartened that someone was at last taking an interest : I only wish I had had a tape recorder ! |
| 10 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 11 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 12 | Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle . |
| 13 | It 's common knowledge that you were at that dinner with me . |
| 14 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 15 | The important thing is that you 'll be more confident and able to cope at , say , 21 than you were at 16 . |
| 16 | She says it 's very important to be chic this year , now that we are at one with Europe . |
| 17 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 18 | At low river flows the effects of pollution are greater than they are at high flows , and , if there is any contamination that is likely to affect textile processing , this will show up more in samples taken at such times . |
| 19 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 20 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 21 | assume that they 're at that level when they come to us and follow on from there . |
| 22 | Does he agree that they are at greater risk not from imports but from the minimum wage , which would devastate the knitwear industry ? |
| 23 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 24 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |
| 25 | If machine accounting is used , the roll should be taken out of the machine , the date changed and all totals checked to make sure that they are at zero . |
| 26 | Last nights looks good tho … having said that they are at full strength … ‘ cept for Barnes . |
| 27 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 28 | Most companies said they used the results as research , although a few said they advised workers that they were at higher risk in certain jobs than others . |
| 29 | The witness concerned should explain that he had a good unobstructed view of the traffic lights and that they were at red when the vehicle or part of it passed them . |
| 30 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |