Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 2 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |
| 3 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 4 | Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle . |
| 5 | It 's common knowledge that you were at that dinner with me . |
| 6 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 7 | She says it 's very important to be chic this year , now that we are at one with Europe . |
| 8 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 9 | assume that they 're at that level when they come to us and follow on from there . |
| 10 | Does he agree that they are at greater risk not from imports but from the minimum wage , which would devastate the knitwear industry ? |
| 11 | When the snake 's mouth is shut they lie flat , but when the jaws are opened wide to strike , the two upper teeth that supply the venom are pivoted down through about go degrees , so that they are at right angles to the top of the head . |
| 12 | Lie flat , bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body . |
| 13 | If machine accounting is used , the roll should be taken out of the machine , the date changed and all totals checked to make sure that they are at zero . |
| 14 | Last nights looks good tho … having said that they are at full strength … ‘ cept for Barnes . |
| 15 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 16 | Most companies said they used the results as research , although a few said they advised workers that they were at higher risk in certain jobs than others . |
| 17 | The witness concerned should explain that he had a good unobstructed view of the traffic lights and that they were at red when the vehicle or part of it passed them . |
| 18 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 19 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 20 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 21 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 22 | Celia Brackenridge seems to think that it is at best frivolous , and at worst ideologically unsound , to suggest that any progressive change is possible in a field of civil society and popular culture ( such as sport ) unless or until we have put the world to right . |
| 23 | Now , I do not seek to defend the conduct of the Sun , but I do think that it is at best messy and may also be dangerous to use the common law to outflank the Act . |
| 24 | Mr. Thornton submits that this passage supports his argument for the defendant in the instant case , but it seems to their Lordships that it is at best neutral . |
| 25 | Normally , at the entry to the roll , the model is in high speed forward flight which means that it is at full power and in a nose down attitude to prevent it climbing . |
| 26 | Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie . |
| 27 | The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established . |
| 28 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 29 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 30 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |