Example sentences of "be [adj] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 2 | It 's not necessarily anti-male prejudice — men are more likely to be full-time at work and less able to look after the kids . |
| 3 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4·6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 4 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4.6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 5 | It was felt essential to continue the Course at a National level and be available to students from a distance and as our training strength is already at full stretch it would not be possible at present to consider a weekly training course , which had been mooted to run alongside . |
| 6 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 7 | The chemists believed it would be possible at room temperatures because the electrolysis forced the hydrogen and deuterium in the palladium creating conditions that Fleischmann and Pons regarded as equivalent to 1027 times atmospheric pressure . |
| 8 | He was so forceful and dogmatic in his ideas that the Girls would be embarrassed at band calls when he interrupted acts , totally unknown to him , to tell them what he thought was wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ Inevitably there will be some at councillor level and some of our senior members who will say , if we go in with the Conservatives : ‘ That 's it , I 'm off ’ . |
| 10 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |
| 11 | Notice , however , that , while the attenuation of an m-derived section based on a purely reactive prototype would be infinite at resonance , any practical version of such a section actually exhibits strong but finite attenuation at resonance . |
| 12 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 13 | ‘ People do n't always want to be serious at lunchtime . |
| 14 | To Dinah 's relief Paul did not touch her this time , but turned over and was soon asleep ; he had to be early at work in the morning . |
| 15 | All instruments allowed into the CMO system must be payable at maturity by a CMO member . |
| 16 | But I must say to the hon. Gentleman who suggests that it would be appropriate at present for this country to scrap its nuclear weapons and Trident that to do so would leave the country wholly defenceless . |
| 17 | Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis complicated by biliary tract calculi were more likely to be symptomatic at presentation than those without calculi . |
| 18 | Remember that they should also be visible at night if you 're likely to use them then , so you should think about lighting at the same time when designing new garden steps ( see the August issue for details of installing garden lighting ) . |
| 19 | I like a Quilt so I could be warm at night . ’ |
| 20 | However he looked after his animals with great care , brushing and combing them every evening , giving them the same food as he had himself , and chopping wood to make a fire so that they should be warm at night . |
| 21 | Forward of the deckhouse are four more cabins , two on each side of a passageway wide enough to allow a sailbag to be dragged through but not so wide as to be dangerous at sea . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's an important week and if you would be happier at home … . ’ |
| 23 | , a lot of people are not honest , to be non-productive at work as opposed to actually off work . |
| 24 | This was particularly true of our proposals about knowledge about language , for some teachers might be ill at ease with this new material and might welcome programmes of study based on drills and rote-learning . |
| 25 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |
| 26 | As long as they 're in Pesth for the start of the journey south , they can do very much as they like , although none of them will be welcome at court . ’ |
| 27 | These carriers of non-penetrant or late onset genes may be heterozygous at codon 129 since heterozygosity at codon 129 might be expected to delay or protect against the onset of clinical disease . |
| 28 | None of the 14 patients whose tumour was found to be irresectable at laparotomy died in hospital after operation . |
| 29 | Liverpool are another side who will be unchanged at home to Bootle who will be without Tony Molloy . |
| 30 | He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones . |