Example sentences of "be [adj] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But as the rest of the nation stays glued to TV sets or lines the streets near Crathie Church near Balmoral to watch the wedding , Carol will be hard at work in her studio . |
| 32 | There is still much work to be done to ensure successful implementation of the project , so the team will still be hard at work considering training ; how to keep staff informed ; and ensuring a smooth change of telephone number [ necessary for a digital system ] . |
| 33 | Darcians will be hard at work , repairing the past , safeguarding the future ; they will have no need of theme parks . |
| 34 | You might be asked to learn a Guide song by heart , or learn to do something that will be useful at home . |
| 35 | They continued to be present at Parliament until the day in March 1707 when they were laid to rest in the great oak chest . |
| 36 | But if there are only two , they will divide up the work of the third in overtime hours , but will they actually be present at work during that period ? ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 37 | no no no , you could be very very clever very very clever and have absolutely no common sense , you might be , still be a very clever person , be brilliant at maths but have absolutely no common sense . |
| 38 | Every cross-country pilot should be competent at side-slipping . |
| 39 | If the student is known to be competent at planning , and it is the details of execution we are to teach , then a double objective would be acceptable . |
| 40 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 41 | It could be that the men and women of this corps were already on the streets and that , army trained , they would be better at surveillance . |
| 42 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 43 | We expect it to be good at mathematics , particularly , and also at various other obvious human capabilities . |
| 44 | And so far as I can tell , you know , from looking at my children 's schooling , the girls seem to be good at maths in the early stages . |
| 45 | You 'll be good at learning , being a student , and that … . ’ |
| 46 | Cutting down on your drinking , even during the last few months of your pregnancy , will help your baby to be healthy at birth . |
| 47 | I do n't think it matters , but if the weather 's still going to be freezing at night |
| 48 | I do n't think it matters but if the weather 's still going to be freezing at night |
| 49 | The premises of the inference are a large number of statements of the kind , ‘ Raven x was observed to be black at time t ’ , and all these we take to be true . |
| 50 | There is a higher risk that your baby will be underweight at birth and you run a greater risk of complications when your baby is born . |
| 51 | There is a higher risk that your baby will be underweight at birth and you run a greater risk of complications when your baby is born . |
| 52 | Then I could be safe at home too . ’ |
| 53 | Your finances seem to be complicated at present . |
| 54 | That 's what Dave said what we could do if we money , you know , all get a , you know you , like you , if you had a partner to do it , you would n't be stuck at home . |
| 55 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 56 | ‘ To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition . ' ’ |
| 57 | While they acknowledged they did not feel themselves to be happy at work — their lot was ‘ to work ’ — they felt that nothing could be changed because they did not have the knowledge . |
| 58 | Work 's very important to me and if the love affair is n't working I ca n't be happy at work . ’ |
| 59 | Children should be happy at school and acquire positive attitudes to learning , developing new interests as well as pursuing old interests . |
| 60 | The rich do not dare to be alone at night in their grand houses : who lurks to rape around the panelled corners , swings to attack from the ropes in the work-out room ? |