Example sentences of "be [not/n't] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Most patients coming to hospital after an overdose are not at serious risk . |
2 | If you stall accidentally it is almost always because you are not aware of the low speed , etc. and therefore all the training in the world will not prevent you from responding instinctively because you are not at that moment aware that you are stalled . |
3 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
4 | But but equally it may it may be in the in the fullness of time that that we would be able to identify or bring a site forward through the local plan process and we 're not at that stage at the moment . |
5 | They 're not at this end of the river . |
6 | I do n't , I mean , I have n't , I 'm not useless cos I can give you information we have here but I 'm not at that end I ca n't you see |
7 | His most effective performance — except that there were not at that stage a great many people who were able to listen — was his broadcast . |
8 | It is interesting to note that the commander of one region , extending from Jerusalem to the coast , is named as John the Essene — another indication that the Essenes were not at all pacifist . |
9 | Aggregating Dolgikh 's figures , we can arrive at the approximate numbers for the peoples of Siberia in the seventeenth century ( including some 69,000 people of the Altai-Sayan and the far East who were not at this time Russian subjects ) as shown in Table 5.1 . |
10 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |
11 | ‘ The comparing power , the judgement , is not at that age active , and ought not to be forcibly excited — ’ You do n't like this ? |
12 | Even if the question does n't specifically warn you about it , by saying " to what extent … " , you should generally find that the answer is not at one end or the other , but somewhere in the middle . |
13 | If , however , the register is not at either end of the excitation sequence list it is incremented or decremented when the instruction at SHIFTX is executed . |
14 | The real problem is not at this level , where the significance of perceptions of colour , form , harmony , rhythm , proportion and so on can be readily confirmed . |
15 | Negative interest rate , as exercised by Swiss bankers , is not at this stage suggested , but it is an option which Swiss experience would help us to achieve if needed in the future . |
16 | The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date . |
17 | This I do know is not , is not at this place successful , not for people concerned with the , the facilities are not really adequate , and I understand that they also would be hoping to take advantage of this community centre . |
18 | Fortunately our family is n't at that stage . ’ |
19 | Is n't at this branch now ! |
20 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
21 | The level of their investment was not at that stage important . |
22 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
23 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
24 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
25 | Outside certain fields of natural science like chemistry and probably mathematics , which they clearly dominated , their extremely high qualitative achievement was perhaps less obvious , because ( unlike the early nineteenth century ) there was not at this time a specifically German genre of natural philosophy . |
26 | However , Caparo was not at this stage registered as a shareholder of Fidelity . |
27 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
28 | The general cultural problem was not at this stage acute , for writing was still primarily a technique of administration , record and contract . |
29 | Ardiles was not at this game but will attend tonight when they play another game in Spurs colours … |
30 | I was n't at all kind , and that 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |