Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 2 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 4 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 5 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
| 6 | V.W. I find myself a non-Catholic in a Catholic school that at the moment is promoting Catholics and I 'm at a complete dead end . |
| 7 | Erm , I 'm at a lost on this . |
| 8 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 9 | I 'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm at the same hotel as we stayed at last time-but it 's not the same without you and Rosie . |
| 13 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 14 | Accordingly I was at a front row table for the show when the lights went down . |
| 15 | And a couple of weeks ago I was at a chemical engineering company where the managing director told me that they were now using accountants for their safety experiments instead of rats . |
| 16 | and he knew what way , I was at a low |
| 17 | Accordingly , one winter 's day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place in America , I decided to see if I could find him . |
| 18 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 19 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 20 | Not knowing what was going to happen to me or how rapidly the disease would progress , I was at a loose end . |
| 21 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 22 | I was at the antenatal clinic . |
| 23 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 24 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 25 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 26 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 27 | I was at the recent launch of Opportunity 2000 , an excellent initiative by Business in the Community . |
| 28 | I was at the Royal Academy this year , and the portraits there were almost universally vile . |
| 29 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 30 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |