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 .
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