Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [be] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 2 | Passages on collegiality , religious liberty and the Jews , for instance , matter greatly because they were at the centre of lengthy conciliar debate as many other passages were not . |
| 3 | Its linear diameter is I 392 000 km ; it looks so small only because it is at a distance of nearly 150 million km from us . |
| 4 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 5 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 6 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 7 | It is bad enough as it is at the moment . |
| 8 | The twentieth century has its own Christian martyrs : St Maximilian Kolbe , who exchanged places with a condemned Jew in the concentration camp and was starved along with his fellow prisoners , before being fatally injected with carbolic acid ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a minister of the Confessing Church of Germany , who was executed by the Nazis ; and Archbishop Romero , gunned down when he was at a prayer meeting . |
| 9 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 10 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 11 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 12 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |
| 13 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 14 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
| 15 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |
| 16 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 17 | I 'm in touch with someone who should be able to tell me exactly when he was at the Institute — and when he was n't . ’ |
| 18 | It says there 's sandwiches on and it 's at the Oxford Arms so |
| 19 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 21 | Right , I 'm off cos I 'm at the careers night , tonight . |
| 22 | She was a little girl who lived across from Ali 's old Louisville home when he was at the top . |
| 23 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 24 | On top of this a generous layer of washed pebbles or cobbles is placed and the pump outlet drawn up until it is at the surface of the stones . |
| 25 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 27 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 28 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 29 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 30 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |