Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment . |
| 2 | I am at least a stone overweight and my haircut is not sharp . |
| 3 | ‘ Peter would have brought it himself , but I 'm over here a lot these days . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm in rather a hurry . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , I 'm in rather a hurry . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm in rather a state about it myself , John , ’ said Bob . |
| 7 | Does n't that mean that I was at least a little sober ? |
| 8 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 9 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 10 | His was by now a familiar position , and the critical reactions to it had also become predictable : praise at his critical acumen in the examination of individual authors was mixed with scorn or bafflement at the general principles he espoused . |
| 11 | Why do some clouds , especially those which are of only a small height , fail to produce rain ? |
| 12 | well its been in there a week |
| 13 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 14 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 15 | Lin says that he hoped to issue the Tchaikovsky with the Glazunov concerto , which is at least an unusual ( though not an unprecedented ) coupling . |
| 16 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 17 | Taji Bey ( Tacizade Cafer Celebi : d. 921/1515 ) who , as a muderris , having reached the Mahmud Pasa medrese in Istanbul , the status of which is uncertain but which was at least a 40-akce medrese , left teaching to become nisanci twice , from 903/1497–8 to 917/1511 and again early in the reign of Selim I , and then Anadolu kazasker In Sha'ban 920/October 1514 , in which post he was executed on 8 Rajab 921/18 August 1515 . |
| 18 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 19 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 20 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 21 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 22 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 23 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 24 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 25 | Miss Mates had brought in Sally-Anne 's basket after Dr Neil had intervened to save her , and driven off a Jem Higgins who was by then a little fearful at having laid Sally-Anne so low . |
| 26 | We are in quite a mess to say the least . ’ |
| 27 | So I think that er we are in quite a strong position . |
| 28 | There are at least a dozen people who can testify to that . |
| 29 | And including second-language users as well as those less fluent there are at least a billion speakers worldwide . |
| 30 | ( There are at least an additional nine which are military-related . ) |