Example sentences of "[prep] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most action was bound to be like this — a span , long or short , in which one did nothing — could do nothing except be at the mercy of one 's nerves — and then the moment , the test … |
| 2 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 3 | But no matter how often the archives are ransacked for old genres to bastardise , you do n't have to be at the forefront of style-making to foresee that very few clubs will be swaying this time next year to Pub Acid , Hip Malt ` n ’ Hops , or Sweaty Backroom House . |
| 4 | But back to Bodytalk , whose convention happened to be at the Metropole , next to Labour 's conference hotel . |
| 5 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 6 | The mosquitoes do n't seem to like the rain either , they all seem to be at the back of the trench . |
| 7 | In fact it is downright unfriendly and I was very pleased to be at the top . |
| 8 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |
| 9 | While I was supposed to be at the beck and call of not only my husband but even his parents , his going around with other women was just taken for granted . |
| 10 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |
| 11 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 12 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 13 | The Master of the Rolls , who is originally a very subordinate officer , with charge of the documents of the court , comes to be at the end of the seventeenth century a judge who can hear Equity cases , though there is an appeal from him to the Chancellor . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't forget to be at the meeting tomorrow then , ’ we prompted as we trod carefully on the clumps of dry grass as if they were stepping-stones . |
| 15 | She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month . |
| 16 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 17 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |
| 18 | Kylie determined to be at the forefront of moves to get the same principles introduced in Australia and Britain . |
| 19 | At the Forest Eyre in January the judges deprived Robert of his wardenship , which was henceforth to be at the disposal of the Crown . |
| 20 | The Lithuanian order is an unusually large one so it is likely to be at the bottom end of that range . |
| 21 | The women 's race looks set for the second successive year to be at the mercy of Rosa Mota , a winner at Olympic and world level as well as the three times European champion . |
| 22 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 23 | It was he , above all , who had determined to tackle the Scottish question head on , he who wanted it and a broad defence of the British constitution to be at the heart of the Tory campaign . |
| 24 | At 1,000 metres , and with heavy fertilisation , yields of 10,000 kg dry matter /ha have been obtained and while adequate summer rainfall may favour grass growth , production is more generally likely to be at the level suggested in Table 2 , and a long wintering period is a major constraint . |
| 25 | Britain has a massive advantage in natural resources that give it the potential to be at the forefront of renewable energy generation . |
| 26 | Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge . |
| 27 | At a time when scientific advance was seen as universally beneficial , the nuclear industry was judged to be at the cutting edge of technological endeavour . |
| 28 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 29 | We hope that these methods will help teachers themselves to enjoy poetry and to share their pleasure with their pupils : ‘ Poetry needs to be at the heart of work in English because of the quality of language at work on experience that it offers to us . |
| 30 | Since the Crown could not afford an absolute loss of revenue , it is clear that this expansion of the waste had to be at the expense of society . |