Example sentences of "[pers pn] is at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 2 | His secretary , Shirley , smirks from behind her desk , self-righteous at being at her post before the boss , even though she is at this moment inspecting her face in a compact mirror . |
| 3 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 4 | If not , then the cause may be ill-fitting boards or defective joists , which must be inspected by lifting a floorboard here and there if it is at all possible . |
| 5 | The weapon 's computer thus knows where it is at all times , without relying on any signals from outside . |
| 6 | And , if it is at all possible , the number of changes which could occur at any one time is better curtailed and staggered . |
| 7 | The father of the demented son pleaded , ‘ But if it is at all possible for you , take pity upon us and help us . ’ |
| 8 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 9 | The report was published for all the world to take note — a case illustrating why aircraft accident reports should always be published if it is at all possible . |
| 10 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 11 | If it is at all possible a teacher should preview the place to be visited , though this may not always be possible with places at a distance . |
| 12 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 13 | We 've got accountants working on it to see if it is at all possible . |
| 14 | Any idea where it is at all ? |
| 15 | I 'd say I do n't know where it is at all . |
| 16 | I do n't think it is at all but I 've never seen it . |
| 17 | It is at such times , perhaps , that we wonder about the unconscious effect of what we read . |
| 18 | But some will , and it is at such times that counselling can play an important role . |
| 19 | It is at such times that the independence of the Supreme Court is at its greatest , but they are rather untypical . |
| 20 | If the news was really unexpected she would be off balance and it is at such times that people are most likely to speak the truth . |
| 21 | Probably not , but it , it is , it is at such an early stage that I 'm not at all sure what advertising you say to speak , can be made of it . |
| 22 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 23 | It is at that moment that Jesus comes , not as a ghost but as himself , to save them and take away their fear . |
| 24 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 25 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 26 | Surely , it is at that age that interest has to be aroused because later those subjects will fall on the other side of the divide . |
| 27 | It is at that moment celebrity golfers disappear . |
| 28 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 29 | Lastly , the success rate at Harvard in the national board examinations has always been extremely high ( as it is at most American medical schools ) . |
| 30 | It is at any rate a sketch of what might be involved in restoring a writer — in this case , the young Pound — to the highly specific social milieu , that of Edwardian England , in which he moved and on which he impinged . |