Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 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 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 10 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's common knowledge that you were at that dinner with me . |
| 13 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 14 | The important thing is that you 'll be more confident and able to cope at , say , 21 than you were at 16 . |
| 15 | She says it 's very important to be chic this year , now that we are at one with Europe . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | assume that they 're at that level when they come to us and follow on from there . |
| 21 | Does he agree that they are at greater risk not from imports but from the minimum wage , which would devastate the knitwear industry ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Last nights looks good tho … having said that they are at full strength … ‘ cept for Barnes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 30 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |