Example sentences of "be [det] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic matters including interest and exchange rates , monetary and fiscal policy , budgetary policy , are all at the heart of Government and all are to be decided by a central bank , which will be the most important institution . |
| 2 | This is drawn up by the curriculum committee , which argues that since God , death , suffering and the purpose of life are all at the heart of religion , and since children sometimes ask questions about them , the class teacher should not only teach about these matters , but be subject both to assessment procedures and to official inspection . |
| 3 | We are all at the mercy of these machines , which few people understand and nobody can control . |
| 4 | … If in such a case the circumstances be such at the time when the act or neglect occurs that it should reasonably be foreseen that the person in fact injured thereby might be so injured , then at the time of the injury a relationship giving rise to a duty exists . |
| 5 | He was wondering if there would be many at the party likely to recognise him out of uniform . |
| 6 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 7 | They were all at the Falcon Gate , banners and placards , with the Transport and General Workers Union convenors haranguing them over loudspeakers . |
| 8 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 9 | In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 10 | And the other thing you have to bear in mind is that at the time the original structure plan was drawn up , they were n't talking about the er the structural employment problems that we are at the moment . |
| 11 | Erm the first thing I 'm , I I would like t t to draw out is that at the end of the year we made a profit of a hundred sixty thousand pounds . |
| 12 | What we are not sure is that at the end of the day it does n't matter all that much what exactly was the raffle and what exactly was the entrance fee because we did n't keep a note of that . |
| 13 | And so what tends to happen is that at the end of a groined bit of beach the area immediately down-drift , that is to the east on the Sussex coast , starts to suffer from very serious erosion . |
| 14 | Er the council 's primary concern through all of this is that at the moment there are four thousand unemployed people in Harrogate District . |
| 15 | Before I could reply Miss Louise called out , ‘ Who 's that at the door ? ’ |
| 16 | There 's some at the front as well . |
| 17 | What 's this at the bottom here ? |
| 18 | oh your fuse is all at the back the |
| 19 | It 's all at the bottom |
| 20 | it 's all at the back |
| 21 | It 's all at the front , yes yes , yes |
| 22 | It is those at the summit who make the decisive moves in history . |
| 23 | Who was that at the door was it |
| 24 | Well because he was half at the time it was just before I left at about nine to come down here you see . |
| 25 | your sugar was all at the bottom of your cup then |
| 26 | it was n't it was all at the front you could n't do it anyway |
| 27 | It was those at the bottom of the social pile , without contacts or Western goods to deal with , who had to submit to the ordeal . |