Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adj] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh yes , she should stay where she is , she 's alright at home — I suppose the only circumstances in which I would n't be able to manage would be if she needed a lot more done for her — personal things like . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , she 's alright at home . |
| 3 | She 's useless at spelling ! |
| 4 | She 's happy at home — she does n't want to move anywhere else . ’ |
| 5 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 6 | Speaker 3 says she is good at sport and " fastest in the Borough " . |
| 7 | She is neat at sewing , and we will take in lodgers between us until the business is paying its way . ’ |
| 8 | I know but it even when it 's not foggy here it 's foggy at East Leek . |
| 9 | We 're told it 's good at garbage collecting , has built-in exception handling and strong type checking . |
| 10 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 11 | But er , it 's difficult it 's difficult at sea . |
| 12 | If started early in the morning , it 's ready at night . ’ |
| 13 | Please make sure it 's ready at reception . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is close at hand . |
| 15 | It is unclear at present what the proposal will say about London Weighting ( LW ) . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the Bush Administration has promised new plans on protecting the owl , although it is unclear at present as to how much logging will be permitted under them . |
| 17 | We feel it is impossible at present because of the Commonwealth . ’ |
| 18 | It is rare at Lanhydrock for there not to be a magnolia in flower . |
| 19 | It is fashionable at present to suggest that the school curriculum should be relevant . |
| 20 | It is possible that these differences reflect the availability of suitable timber , but it is difficult at present to determine the extent of woodland at a sufficient level of detail . |
| 21 | But it is different at home . |
| 22 | In places where it is light at night , robins are the most commonly heard songsters , and dunnocks and song thrushes are quite often heard too . |
| 23 | After all Batty is not likely to be scoring much and he is great at ball-winning . |
| 24 | Probably a bad impression as I feel that he is good at heart . |
| 25 | But he smiles back — of course — because he ca n't do anything else for he is ill at ease , they are ill at ease and they all drown in smiles that suffocate . |
| 26 | If the patient can get into the kneeling position and then balance on one knee while bringing the other leg forward , so that he can lever himself onto a chair , he will feel confident that he can always get up , even if he is alone at home . |
| 27 | With special equipment and a home help he is independent at home . |
| 28 | ‘ He is fine at present , ’ said Balding , who is running the gelding as an eight-year-old , being of the opinion that he will never be so well treated in the National by the handicapper again . |
| 29 | He 's good at climbing but there not many long hills in Belgium . |
| 30 | Good morning , ladies and gentlemen , can I just give you er , Tony apologies , er , unfortunately he has to be in Paris today , I know he 'd prefer to be with you , but he has to be in Paris today , and since he 's good at delegation , he 's actually asked me to come along and and to talk to you . |