Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be at the " 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 | The moral to be drawn from this sad episode is : ‘ Do n't put your money into any business you can not understand , and where you are at the mercy of the advice given by others , however trustworthy . ’ |
| 3 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 4 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave , ’ said Major Astle . |
| 8 | Major Astle said : ‘ We 're not sure where he is at the moment because he 's on leave . |
| 9 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 10 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 11 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 12 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 13 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 14 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | I am not sure whether I am more appalled at the prospect of the Labour party being in government than I am at the prospect of having the support of the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) and the Liberal party . |
| 16 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 19 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 20 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 21 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 22 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 23 | A stock of ‘ standard ’ components will not help when an unusual item is ‘ out of stock ’ , and with these you just have to accept that you are at the mercy of the suppliers . |
| 24 | Now would you , I think it must be right that you were at the at five fifteen in the morning conducted by Sergeant . |
| 25 | Remember , if you get a mild reaction , you will need to proceed with caution until you can tell whether that food or food group is causing you to feel less well or less able to lose weight than you were at the end of Stage I. |
| 26 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ So you 're at the Julians ’ . |
| 28 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 29 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 30 | This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere . |