Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 2 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 3 | The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted . |
| 4 | You are free to cancel at any time . |
| 5 | The function includes part of the competitive labour supply function , i.e. that segment of L s above and to the right of point B , but renders inoperative the remaining part , i.e. that segment of L s below and to the left of point B. Workers who are willing to work at less than the wage stipulated by trades unions ( w 1 in Figure 5.1 ) will be excluded from active participation in the labour market for as long as these powerful combinations maintain their stranglehold as monopoly suppliers of labour . |
| 6 | The effects upon the services with which this book is concerned and upon the behaviour of local government are hard to predict at this stage . |
| 7 | Florence and Rome are stunning to visit at any time of the year — but in the winter they have a charm of their own . |
| 8 | If the housing market in southern England remains as tight as it stands in 1988 , then the problems created by recent trends in social polarization are unlikely to diminish at any of the three scales treated in this chapter . |
| 9 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 10 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 11 | It is my grief that I am unable to repay at this time the money that is due . |
| 12 | In Birmingham ‘ the evening papers are eagerly read each night , and scores of boys who never play themselves are able to name at any time the runs made by prominent cricketers … and in seasons like the present ‘ discuss readily and ably the claims of the individual members of the Australian team to be considered really worthy exponents of the game ’ . |
| 13 | You are able to look at all the Ford 1992 series of cars currently available in America . |
| 14 | Because tin lodes are apt to end at any time , miners have to be continually ready to open up new levels or drives , and to extend new ones in a series of crazy changes in direction . |
| 15 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 16 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
| 17 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |
| 18 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 19 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 20 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , Maria , ’ Michele spoke in Italian , ‘ I 'm sorry to call at such an awkward time , but I wo n't keep you more than a minute . ’ |
| 22 | The agent subsequently contacted us to advise that the company 's was the highest bid and asked if we would be prepared to proceed at that figure . |
| 23 | He talks as if I 'm free to go at any minute , and I 'm the same . ) |
| 24 | It would not be unusual to find at any given time , a significant number of staff in a school involved in part-time study or research activities . ) |
| 25 | It may be useful to look at each element of the package in turn . |
| 26 | When reviewing your own goals for the future , it might be useful to look at some of the positive aspects of nursing as a career , to see whether you still identify with them . |
| 27 | Although at the moment it is up to you to decide what form of updating you would like to undertake , it would be useful to look at any developments in your area aimed at your special interest , and to find out from employers what they might expect from you in advance of offering you a job . |
| 28 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 29 | Perhaps it would be better to look at those which other vendors have selected and market as their own under OEM agreements . |
| 30 | ‘ Obviously it would be good to look at more examples from different cultures , but it 's such a huge subject , in ten weeks you can only really deal with the tip of the iceberg . |