Example sentences of "he be at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 'll he be at next ? ’ |
| 2 | Will he be at this meeting tonight ? ’ |
| 3 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 4 | He felt as if he were at one of Mama 's evenings . |
| 5 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 6 | In this he is at one with most Christian Democrats and most Social Democrats in Europe today . |
| 7 | At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world . |
| 8 | The extent to which this is an objection to Locke 's actual views will depend , as in the case of the brave officer , on whether they concern what makes a person at one time the same as he is at another , or concern moral matters of praise and blame . |
| 9 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 10 | Oh I do n't think he is at this rate na , Jonathan ! |
| 11 | After years of being thought a crank , he is at last being taken seriously . |
| 12 | Banks is an immensely amiable , bearded ex-beatnik who feels that he is at last putting his past behind him . |
| 13 | He is at last , and to his evident relief , his own man . |
| 14 | Here he is at last truly liberated ; no longer rowing in a ‘ classic galley ’ . |
| 15 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 16 | You know he , and he 's at that point now |
| 17 | ‘ Or more likely he 's at some hotel , waiting to search our luggage before we can proceed . ’ |
| 18 | Well , he 's at some de there 's some firms do or something on apparently |
| 19 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 20 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 21 | When ‘ God 's minister , Death ’ visited the pastor 's own family and he lost a child aged one month , he was at first overwhelmed by grief , as described by his wife in a memoir written after this death . |
| 22 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 23 | When his teacher , Mauve , and then Tersteeg , the manager at Goupil 's whom he had counted a friend , both turned against him , he was at first bitterly hurt . |
| 24 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |
| 25 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |
| 26 | He was at first driven out by the duces , Berhthun and Andhun , but it was not long before he attacked again and slew King Aethelwealh ( HE IV , 15 ) . |
| 27 | When , in 1929 , the Swiss amateur physiologist Hans Berger reported that by taping a set of recording electrodes to the human scalp he could record continuous bursts of electricity pulsing through the brain , he was at first not taken seriously . |
| 28 | His branch , in which he was at first the only officer , was called GS ( R ) . |
| 29 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 30 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |