Example sentences of "[be] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er one of the ways you can use is er National Savings Income Bonds , er which are er okay , but they 're , the trouble is they 're at a variable rate , so at the moment they 're paying seven percent , so that 's on National Savings Income Bonds , so that that person would get seven hundred a year at the moment gross , and of course er you do n't need to t to fill in an R eighty five for that type of investment because it 's not a bank or building society account . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 3 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 4 | They said : ‘ We 're at a fact-finding stage . |
| 5 | You 're at a romantic stage . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
| 7 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 8 | Yeah , you 're at the right end ! |
| 9 | We 're at the right speed here Peter , we 're okay . |
| 10 | Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're pleased about the reed warblers : they 're at the north-westerly edge of their breeding range here , ’ he went on . |
| 12 | It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're at the final state of putting proposals together . ’ |
| 14 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
| 15 | If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in . |
| 16 | We 're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental . |
| 17 | providing you 're at the same time . |
| 18 | She said , any time at all if we 're at the same time . |
| 19 | that Mary er Mary 's da , one of Mary 's daughters and one of Christine 's daughters , they 're at the same college or something , they 're big friends ! |
| 20 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 21 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
| 22 | Well see you 're at the wrong colour . |
| 23 | You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay . |
| 24 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
| 25 | I 'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe . |
| 26 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 27 | I 'm at the long ledge below the final wall of the Nose , where the Direct , Superdirect , and other routes not mentioned by Ron James converge . |
| 28 | I 'm at the same hotel as we stayed at last time-but it 's not the same without you and Rosie . |
| 29 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 30 | It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start . |