Example sentences of "[det] [noun] be at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as BSL is concerned , virtually everyone who learns some signs is at some stage called upon to interpret by a deaf person , and this is most likely to be from English into BSL . |
| 2 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 3 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 4 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 5 | The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines . |
| 6 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 7 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |