Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn . |
| 2 | The fact remains , however , that the poor are not simply at the bottom of the stratification hierarchy , but are almost , in a sense , outside the margins of that hierarchy . |
| 3 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 4 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 5 | ( You are not just at the interview to see if you suit the company but to see if the job genuinely suits you ) |
| 6 | In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases . |
| 7 | You are n't simply at the mercy of restaurateurs . |
| 8 | So , if you are n't even at the word processing stage yet it may well be better to get this technology in place first before you try to tackle the wider issues of electronic publishing . |
| 9 | The children were not even at the back of the house away from the road . |
| 10 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 11 | So what we would have been I mean it were n't just at the bottom of the street . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know you were n't there at the trials . ’ |
| 13 | It is not just at the ends of words where compression methods can be applied . |
| 14 | It is not just at the ends of words where common letter sequences can make use of the same nodes in a tree structure . |
| 15 | It is not just at the regional level that the geography of British manufacturing industry has been changing . |
| 16 | ‘ I beg your pardon , sir , Williams is not here at the moment . |
| 17 | The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention . |
| 18 | Child care manager Lucy Wheatley said : ‘ It is not usually at the time of the miscarriage that the woman suffers but several months later . ’ |
| 19 | Child care manager Lucy Wheatley said : ‘ It is not usually at the time of the miscarriage that the woman suffers but several months later . |
| 20 | This suggests that it is not only at the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis that language processing is interactive . |
| 21 | But it is not only at the recruitment stage that age ranges can be unlawful discrimination . |
| 22 | As the Chief Secretary takes refuge in international comparisons , especially with the other countries of the Group of Seven , will he explain why the United Kingdom is not only at the bottom of the investment league of the G7 , but at the bottom of the investment league of leading European nations ? |
| 23 | ( e ) Insurance A property is not now at the risk of a buyer until completion has taken place . |
| 24 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 25 | ‘ He 's … er … he 's not here at the moment , but I know about the business . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Still , he 's not here at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | He 's not here at the moment |
| 28 | My hand 's not really at the back . |
| 29 | She wanted to put the phone down and pretend it was n't happening but the noises came back and a different voice said , ‘ Sergeant MacDonald is n't here at the moment . |
| 30 | I mean I just find it annoying cos you get through to somebody who then passes you on to somebody else and then they 'll talk to you and say well the person you want to talk to is n't here at the moment so you 've had all this phone call and then you 've got to ring again . |