Example sentences of "be at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And er one of the ways you can use is er National Savings Income Bonds , er which are er okay , but they 're , the trouble is they 're at a variable rate , so at the moment they 're paying seven percent , so that 's on National Savings Income Bonds , so that that person would get seven hundred a year at the moment gross , and of course er you do n't need to t to fill in an R eighty five for that type of investment because it 's not a bank or building society account . |
2 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
3 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
4 | They said : ‘ We 're at a fact-finding stage . |
5 | You 're at a romantic stage . |
6 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
7 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
8 | Yeah , you 're at the right end ! |
9 | We 're at the right speed here Peter , we 're okay . |
10 | Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly . |
11 | ‘ We 're pleased about the reed warblers : they 're at the north-westerly edge of their breeding range here , ’ he went on . |
12 | It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts . |
13 | ‘ We 're at the final state of putting proposals together . ’ |
14 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
15 | If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in . |
16 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
17 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
18 | Well see you 're at the wrong colour . |
19 | You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay . |
20 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
21 | V.W. I find myself a non-Catholic in a Catholic school that at the moment is promoting Catholics and I 'm at a complete dead end . |
22 | Erm , I 'm at a lost on this . |
23 | I 'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe . |
24 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
25 | I 'm at the long ledge below the final wall of the Nose , where the Direct , Superdirect , and other routes not mentioned by Ron James converge . |
26 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
27 | I , I mean obviously I hope the decisions will go my way because Keith has actually argued in the past that we should disregard F E , because he says it 's , it 's impossible to fairly take account of that , and what he means is there 's no F E formulae in Northallerton , so he knows that if F E is excluded Northallerton will be at a major divan |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
30 | She was a pretty little thing , but I fear the libido of the young men she encountered in here would be at a low ebb . |