Example sentences of "be [adv] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 2 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 3 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 4 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 5 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 6 | He ca n't , he ca n't be actually at a wedding because |