Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun] at " in BNC.
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1 | To troops who had not yet been through the mill at Verdun , passing men whom they were about to relieve was an unnerving experience ; they seemed like beings from another world . |
2 | She supports the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) , who until recently have been of no consequence at all in Lauchhammer . |
3 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
4 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
5 | Despite some of the disadvantages outlined , low vision aids can be immensely helpful to some visually handicapped pupils in classroom and more general situations , but they are of no use at all lying on a shelf gathering dust . |
6 | The fair , public and expeditious characteristics of judicial proceedings are of no value at all if there are no judicial proceedings . ’ |
7 | is making average weekly earnings which are below the level at which NI contributions must be paid ( £52 from 6th April 1991 ) . |
8 | If we win that we 're in the final at Wembley , what , what if we beat Chelsea at Wembley ? |
9 | if you 're on a motorway at seventy |
10 | its Oxford 's turn this week … the Live match is coming to the Manor Ground on Sunday for United against Leicester City … to rugby now … and Gloucester 's season is having all sorts of ups and downs … they 're on a high at the moment thanks to a resounding win over Leicester Tigers on saturday … the score at Kingsholm was thirty six … thirteen |
11 | And it 's Richard at Radio Nottingham and you 're on the air at the moment , this is your wake-up call . |
12 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
13 | Well they 're appearing at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham tonight in concert , and then a week on Friday , November the twelfth they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln so welcome back . |
14 | And on November the twelfth that 's a week on Friday they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln in Consett . |
15 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
16 | The main Chaplaincy rooms are near the Bookshop at the Coleraine campus , and near the Ulster Bank at the Jordanstown campus . |
17 | ALTERN 8 , MOBY , THE SHAMEN , SHADES OF RHYTHM , SL2 and SUNSCREEM are amongst the performers at this year 's DMC Technics Mixmag Awards taking place at The Royal Albert Hall on November 9 . |
18 | I am like the cow at the sea shore , bound by the motion of the waves . |
19 | Those who are above the quota at this stage are instantly deemed elected . |
20 | For all these reasons wooden aeroplanes are under a cloud at the moment . |
21 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
22 | Some of those cases are before the courts at the moment . |
23 | In the light of this Constantius is perhaps unlikely to have been in a position to destroy Wallia completely in 416 : Stilicho , who had been in a position at least as strong , had failed to destroy Alaric . |
24 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
25 | in green and black and silver , the emeralds of Manjiku burst like stars in the bubbles on her limbs , and she 's amazed they 're so beautiful , for she 's not been in the water at night before . |
26 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
27 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
28 | Probably had n't been in the sun at all ! |
29 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
30 | The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me , but the Operation Raleigh people rang to warn us : they had been in the rainforest at the same time as us , and 50 to 60 per cent of their people had gone down with river blindness . |