Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 2 | First , it is essential that cycles be accepted on routes where they are at present accepted — and preferably on all routes . |
| 3 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 4 | I 'm happier at work than I am at home … |
| 5 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 6 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 7 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 8 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 9 | I reckon you 're slightly taller in the morning than you are at night . |
| 10 | But I thought good structure control overall , painted pictures well erm and I think perhaps just probe a bit more just a little bit stronger than you are at painting pictures but as you see a picture paints a thousand words . |
| 11 | ‘ And once we 're at sea the food will be given out , ’ Ruth said . |
| 12 | Once we were at Arrancay together , I thought we 'd be able to talk it out — decide what was best for the future . |
| 13 | But since there are much larger numbers in relation to the dominant person in the schoolroom than there are at home a distinct psychological break is experienced in the transition from one to the other . |
| 14 | Yeah , but again there is , there are more houses at Walberswick than there were at East Bra is it Bravance or Badance ? |
| 15 | Although they 're at home . |
| 16 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 17 | prisoners whose character and record render them suitable … should be released from prison earlier than they are at present . |
| 18 | [ I ] n the case of Britain and Israel , two countries without codified constitutions , such pressure as exists to adopt one is based less on the desire to possess a clear-cut organisational chart delimiting the institutions of government than on a feeling that rights would be better protected under a codified constitution than they are at present . |
| 19 | If ‘ community care ’ is not to result in increased impoverishment and dependency for women care-givers ( with all the possible long-term adverse consequences for their own old age ) , then employment and social security policies and the provision of ‘ community care ’ services have to be integrated to a far greater extent than they are at present . |
| 20 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |
| 21 | Ruth told herself that once they were at sea things would be better . |
| 22 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 23 | But this full equilibrium position , at C , is inferior to the one at which inflation is zero and unemployment is equal to its natural rate , point B. This is clear from the fact that both have the same unemployment rate , but point C has a higher inflation rate ; it is also indicated by the fact that at point C the popularity of the government is lower than it is at point B. We therefore have the odd result that the position which is optimal , point B , is not feasible , whereas the position that is feasible is sub-optimal . |
| 24 | Even on a cloudless , sunny day , the late afternoon sunlight is much warmer in tone than it is at noon . |
| 25 | She did n't want her relationship with her chief to become any closer than it was at present . |
| 26 | In fact Tod tends to be more upbeat with them here than he is at home ( at home , in slippers and dressing-gown , longsufferingly shuffling ) . |
| 27 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 28 | I 'd just feel more secure if I was at home . ’ |
| 29 | Well I know that if I was at work . |
| 30 | you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S |