Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following are due to line up at Cleveland Park : Sumner , Les Collins ( Edinburgh ) , Wayne Carter ( Wolverhampton ) , Carl Stonehewer ( Belle Vue ) , Peter Carr ( Sheffield ) , Neville Tatum ( Eastbourne ) , Neil Evitts ( Sheffield ) , Nathan Simpson ( Eastbourne ) , Paul Bentley ( Coventry ) , Andy Phillips ( Poole ) , Scott Robson , Scott Lamb , David Blackburn , David Walsh ( all Berwick ) , Paul Whittaker ( Peterborough ) , Kenny McKinna ( Edinburgh . ) |
| 2 | She had never been afraid to look straightly at whatever fortune sent her , to map its every feature , and acknowledge it for what it was . |
| 3 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 4 | If you are prepared to tie up at least £1,000 for two years the National & Provincial has launched Security Bond III which currently pays 11.75 per cent net . |
| 5 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 6 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 7 | Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given . |
| 8 | The television , for many old people who are afraid to go out at night , an important link with the outside world and the sources of ent entertainment . |
| 9 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 10 | In a society where many women are afraid to walk alone at night does this increase in reporting increase women 's fear still further ? |
| 11 | But I just did n't want to go , it was to my grandmother and old John they used to say , Oh no , you do n't want to school , you 're supposed to stay here at home . |
| 12 | this is something though , well they 're all finished now at Christmas . |
| 13 | They 're all turning up at the Evesham Leisure Centre to learn circus skills . |
| 14 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 15 | But the two crews are likely to meet again at Henley and the scene is set for a classic confrontation . |
| 16 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 17 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 18 | The trestles supporting shallow wooden trays painted blue , red or yellow , and which have the vendor 's name and telephone number roughly inscribed on the front , these are all folded away at about twelve-thirty , until the next day . |
| 19 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 20 | Governor 's serve in a voluntary capacity and are unlikely to turn up at meetings if they are dull events where they are expected to contribute nothing except approval and applause . |
| 21 | Bear in mind that we can keep changing our goals — but unless we have a destination in mind , we are unlikely to set off at all . |
| 22 | If they are receiving thousands of pounds as members of Cardiff Bay development corporation , they are unlikely to look dispassionately at the interests of their wards . |
| 23 | We have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users |
| 24 | In the UK we have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users , let alone ask their views , and community care encourages this approach to service delivery . |
| 25 | Perhaps he suggests that , although bats ' eyes are apparently weak , nevertheless , in some way that is not understood , they are able to see efficiently at night by use of their eyes . |
| 26 | Most modern faxes are Group III compliant ( see the Jargon Busters on page 56 ) and are able to print out at 200dpi , which is n't too far off laser printer quality . |
| 27 | First , I am pleased that by means of this debate , we are able to look closely at one particular education service for adults . |
| 28 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 29 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 30 | In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 . |