Example sentences of "[being] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 2 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 3 | He also recognises the potential problem of UK operators being at a financial disadvantage when the UK market is wide open to Continental competition after the EC 's Third Liberalisation Package is adopted and , since it appears that AOC holders may be able to operate aircraft on any EC register , in the absence of action from the JAA and CAA , he foresees a situation where UK air taxi and charter operators will ‘ go offshore ’ or operate under ‘ flags of convenience ’ . |
| 4 | Anything to break the monotony of waiting , yet being at a split second 's notice to move , to any incident , anywhere in the city . |
| 5 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 6 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 7 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 8 | From the novelist 's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder . |
| 9 | being at a loose end is not the condition of us spiritual and working animals , it is not being a man among men . |
| 10 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I think , ’ Rory said , ‘ it 's called being at an awkward age . ’ |
| 13 | Specialeyes marketing director Steve Jacobs says the company has always been perceived as being at the cheap end of the market and it is now trying to raise its image with its professional market and consumers . |
| 14 | Being at the other end of an extremely hostile divorce suit can be a very nasty experience — especially when your expartner cranks up an aggressive lawyer to screw you . |
| 15 | There is now no doubt that those societies who were not represented will deeply regret the step they adopted , for those would-be representatives have missed having had the honour of being at the best gathering ever held in the annals of the deaf and dumb . " |
| 16 | The abdominal aspect of the sacrum in males displays a uniform curve with the deepest part of the hollow at the third segment ; whereas in females , the upper portion is flattened and the lower portion sharply angulated ( the deepest part being at the fourth segment ) . |
| 17 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 19 | Last year Lord Petre planted out about ten thousand Americans which , being at the same time mixed with about twenty thousand Europeans , and some Asians , make a very beautiful appearance , great art and skill being shown in consulting everyone 's particular growth and the well blending of the greens … |
| 20 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 21 | x. failure to maintain professional standards , being at the same time pefectionistic in some things and amazingly casual in others . |
| 22 | This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work . |
| 23 | This territory had been annexed to Poland after its occupation by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War , a situation accepted de facto by the Western powers at the Potsdam conference of July-August 1945 ( the northern part of East Prussia being at the same time incorporated into the Soviet Union ) . |
| 24 | They all come into being at the same time . |
| 25 | ( b ) Calculate to four significant figures the ratio of the rate of diffusion through a porous membrane of hydrogen chloride gas composed wholly of molecules to the rate of diffusion of a gas composed wholly of molecules , both gases being at the same temperature and pressure . |
| 26 | The logo and style are designed to reflect the best traditions of the Board and its policy of being at the leading edge of education for industry and commerce internationally . |
| 27 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |