Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you are young or old , you should always leave a key with a neighbour whom you trust and who is at home quite often , maybe someone who is retired , or who is at home with children , in case there is an emergency while you are out . |
| 2 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 3 | First , it is essential that cycles be accepted on routes where they are at present accepted — and preferably on all routes . |
| 4 | In London he had joined gangs who had thrown rotten tomatoes , eggs or whatever was at hand into Salvation Army meetings . |
| 5 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 6 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 7 | Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really |
| 8 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 9 | ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger . |
| 10 | I 'm happier at work than I am at home … |
| 11 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 12 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 13 | At the time of the fire , British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , which runs Windscale , used its own estimates of the doses of iodine-131 , the most dangerous radio-isotope released during the fire , on individuals to claim that nobody was at risk . |
| 14 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 15 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 16 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 17 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 18 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 19 | Having placed the design on screen and ensured that you are at Row one , Column one , within Magnify , click on to the printer icon with the right mouse button . |
| 20 | And so it is my conclusion that you are at present a man without funds , clearly ignorant of the axiom that ‘ there is no such thing as a free lunch ’ . ’ |
| 21 | If your doctor knows that you are at risk from such conditions , he/she will be prepared to diagnose and treat any infection more promptly . |
| 22 | I reckon you 're slightly taller in the morning than you are at night . |
| 23 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 24 | ‘ I and many like me in Germany think it is a tragedy that we are at war with you . |
| 25 | ‘ And once we 're at sea the food will be given out , ’ Ruth said . |
| 26 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |
| 27 | It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’ |
| 29 | The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) . |
| 30 | To forestall any immediate and hasty rejection of the foregoing method of assessment of the value of human virtue by the reader , he is reminded that there is at present no rational way in which this can be done . |