Example sentences of "be [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project will investigate the roles of males and females , old and young , and the power relations between them in two areas of land settlement in Mexico where there are attempts at sustainable agriculture . |
| 2 | All round the church are chapels at two levels , set between the buttresses and in the immense thickness of the walls . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend will be glad to know that my constituents , particularly those who are parents at this school , will be pleased to hear that he will make a fast decision . |
| 4 | Mosquito netting : there are nets at both ends which zip separately from the door flap . |
| 5 | Cos we 're novices at this . |
| 6 | I often wonder if they 're men at all . ’ |
| 7 | My , but we 're snobs at that age , are n't we ? ) |
| 8 | And are changes at these particular sensory-motor synapses the only ones that occur during short- or long-term learning ? |
| 9 | Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all . |
| 10 | ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’ |
| 11 | Thus , in non-anaphoric uses , ( 73 ) How are things there ? does not generally mean " how are things at some place distant from the speaker " , but rather " how are things where the addressee is " . |
| 12 | When u 1 and u 2 are velocities at different positions but the same instant , is known as a space correlation . |
| 13 | How far are viewers at different stages of development equipped for these conventions , one wonders ? |
| 14 | There are bellends at either end and both are big enough to store a couple of rucksacks and cooking gear . |
| 15 | The growth appears to be fairly steady , and rather small , but there are dips at 1967-68 , and 1972-74 , and there is a tendency towards non-linearity in the rate of growth . |
| 16 | Not all bureaucrats are in the ruling class — there are bureaucrats at all levels of Soviet society — but the ruling class is predominantly composed of bureaucrats . |
| 17 | That , and we 've had this in the past , where I would say that people that live in Yarbury North and South probably do earn less and live in houses that probably are , do n't have as big gardens and things like that , so the natu the nature of the is that they probably do earn less money erm but I I do n't consider those to be ghettos at all . |
| 18 | It may even be , if the young people involved broadly adopt the ‘ parent ’ culture , that they turn out not to be imperatives at all . |
| 19 | For they would have to have escaped the very apparatuses which constitute subjects , and thus would not be subjects at all . |
| 20 | But there will always be pockets at any one time where we ca n't give as an equally good service as we would like . |
| 21 | Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual . |
| 22 | I do n't believe there will be problems at that distance of noise of dust and the visual impact of this hill must be limited at that distance . |
| 23 | Police received a warning there would be explosions at those offices and those of Shell Expro at Altens and Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don . |
| 24 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 25 | Well I suppose ah no , will there be children at eight o'clock ? |
| 26 | He warned : ‘ It is easy to be has-beens at 21 with nothing in thee future and for their lives to be ruined . |
| 27 | Oh aye , there used to be wakes at one time . |
| 28 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 29 | In this instance , however , the mystery as to why there should be artefacts at all in the soil was easily solved . |
| 30 | I suppose there are dilemmas at such moments in any decade . |