Example sentences of "to be at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , is the deemed subletting to be at a fixed rent or at a rent subject to review ? |
| 2 | Soon he hopes to be at a new home in a different area , where he hopes to be able to live his life in peace . |
| 3 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 4 | It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start . |
| 5 | Royal College of Nursing members at the hospital had expressed worry over possible job losses and morale was said to be at a low ebb . |
| 6 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 7 | yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go |
| 8 | Also , apart from legal considerations , in most situations , a seller who does not provide such a remedy is likely to be at a significant commercial disadvantage compared to his competitors , since the giving of such guarantees and warranties has really become standard commercial practice . |
| 9 | Whatever the price happens to be at a given time , and this can vary dramatically , it will be a price worth paying for some and not for others . |
| 10 | The job has to be at a senior enough level and it has to be constrained enough to enable the job to be searched . |
| 11 | it used to be at a different time of the year , though , did n't it ? |
| 12 | Bert , Alice was pleased to see , missed Jasper , tended to be at a loose end . |
| 13 | I just happened to know that Geoffrey was keen to meet you again , and you do seem to be at a loose end at the moment . |
| 14 | Flow rates in pressure filters are usually around 3 gal/min per ft2 ( 154.41. /min per m2 ) of filter surface area , whereas backwashing has to be at a high rate , usually 10 gal/min per ft2 ( 514.51. /min per m2 ) of bed area , for 5–10 min . |
| 15 | Moncef was thought to be at a secret location in Tunisia . |
| 16 | Educated women seem to be at a particular disadvantage because they are expected , and expect themselves , to accept the loss gracefully and suppress irrational feelings associated with a process which is not unlike mourning . |
| 17 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 18 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 19 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |
| 20 | The standard pattern is used , adjusting the final pattern so as to be at the holding point as near as possible to the onward clearance time . |
| 21 | When the trust is in demand , prices are likely to be at the upper end of the range and the trust is said to be on an ‘ offer ’ basis . |
| 22 | The HeI stars are known to be at the Galactic Centre because many are coincident with temperature peaks in the dust associated with the spiral of ionized gas flowing into the centre . |
| 23 | When launching a kick it is essential to be at the correct distance from an opponent . |
| 24 | We need to ensure that our white collar members have the help and the support and the advice available to them , but that help and that advice needs to be at the right time and at the right place . |
| 25 | Apart from the pure nostalgia generated among those of us who know the route well , it was enlightening to hear from Russell of the practical problems and time involved in making such a film — 200+ hours and many journeys , hoping to be at the right place at the right time — and , as always , the great unknown — the weather . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 27 | The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices . |
| 28 | The Garden has the information resources and much of the staff expertise and enthusiasm to be at the leading edge of IT within ten years . |
| 29 | Client areas may be keen to be at the leading edge in the use emerging technologies , often for all the best reasons , but sometimes to keep up with the latest toy . |
| 30 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |