Example sentences of "would be [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short , rather thickset , with dark curling hair , dark eyes , and freckles , she looked as if she would be most at home with dogs and horses , or with bared arms scrubbing a dairy down , and perhaps she was , but she was also very intelligent , highly imaginative , and easily my best student . |
| 2 | Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk . |
| 3 | She never felt comfortable on entering a room full of strangers , and she hoped Bridget would be near at hand . |
| 4 | I knew that the military and particularly the Civil Affairs Service ( CASB ) would be urgently at work , and that Colonel Glass in charge of publicity , who had taken part in our Simla planning , would be preparing the way . |
| 5 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 6 | The road cuttings along Highway 70 in Arizona ( the " main road of America " , joining Chicago and Los Angeles ) show red and green marls and thin sandstones with layers of gypsum , all of which would be perfectly at home along the banks of the River Severn ( plate 1.6 ) . |
| 7 | The keep , the earliest dateable secular stone building in Britain , would be quite at home in 11th century Normandy or on the Loire . |
| 8 | Accordingly , even those who have learned some of the relevant names from Pound 's biographers would be quite at sea if the editors had not marshalled , deftly and compactly and sometimes wittily , some very out-of-the-way information . |
| 9 | The Allies would be still at war with Japan , while Russia and China would be at peace — a situation which would be fraught with obvious dangers and embarrassments from our point of view . |
| 10 | And breakfast was not only a leisurely start , it was also the only Sunday meal when he could be sure that all the members of his family would be together at table . |
| 11 | It would be late at night , she would have her back to the door and , when brushing her teeth , Elinor went into a kind of trance . |
| 12 | It would also be more appropriate for the unambitious students of moderate talents who currently apply for an English degree , but would be more at home in a less intensive programme of liberal study . |
| 13 | This Flemish Jesuit façade is unique in Prague : with its banded rusticated columns and swags of fruit , it would be more at home in Antwerp . |
| 14 | Although most of the architecture you see before you would be more at home in Vienna , the impetus for development came from committed Czechs like Count Sternberg and the architect of the Ring in Vienna , Josef Hlávka , who used his vast wealth to become patron of Bohemian everything . |
| 15 | This month I will also be embarrassed to allow my father-in-law , who is a Frenchman and a rugby enthusiast , to read a magazine that has again disgraced itself by using a humourless title such as ‘ Frog March ’ ( April 1992 page 20 ) which would be more at home in The Sun newspaper . |
| 16 | One of them would be more at home doing scaffolding on a building site , in my opinion . |
| 17 | " Is the hatch open ? " she asked , thinking he would be more at ease if she said something entirely practical . |
| 18 | But presumably he thought , if her relationships at home were kept in good working order , he would be less at risk from her attentions — the conceit of him . |
| 19 | More serious was the agreed medical opinion that should she continue in this way , within a week her capacity to have children in later life would be seriously at risk and a little later her life itself might be in danger . |