Example sentences of "be [conj] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 2 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 3 | Warwick 's chief stewardship in the duchy of Lancaster went not to Gloucester but to Hastings and the implication seems to be that at this stage the king was more concerned to reward his allies than to undertake a major reconstruction of royal authority in the north . |
| 4 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 5 | What is unusual about this resource is that at each point in the dialogue it is known what idea the speaker is trying to express , and what information the hearer has which provides the context for its understanding . |
| 6 | ‘ Another is that at international level , scrummaging comes first and activity which may become possible in the loose comes second . |
| 7 | What I do regret , however , is that at great expense Johnnie Spencer filled a room at Althorp with paintings by that derivative Norfolk artist Edward Seago ( 1910–1974 ) . |
| 8 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 9 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 10 | The likelihood is that at that point you will then turn into what the young term a boring old fart and that transition from enfant terrible to boring old fart is immediate at the age of sixty . |
| 11 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 12 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 13 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 14 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 15 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 16 | It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight . |
| 17 | This is because at any level there are competing interpretations of the data that can not be disambiguated , for which the appropriate information is available at some other level . |
| 18 | What matters is whether at that time the patient 's capacity was reduced below the level needed in the case of a refusal of that importance , for refusals can vary in importance . |
| 19 | A further drawback was that at that time most local authorities had neither the trained staff nor the organizational structure to manage a community care programme effectively . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |