Example sentences of "[verb] to be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to ride as much as I can , but I want to try to be sensible at the same time . |
| 2 | This would mean that a supply of dollar bills would need to be available at UK banks . |
| 3 | And more and more we 're hearing news of women working on a whole range of issues , including male violence in Africa , all parts of Africa , and the more I hear that , the more I realise that what has come out of England as revolutionary feminism is a parallel movement and does n't need to be sectarian at all in the way that maybe it 's been seen . |
| 4 | The change-manager will no doubt contemplate the required strategy before releasing his ( or her ) proposals , just as Quinn would suggest , but he will still need to be adept at riding the waves of change . |
| 5 | I never cease to be amazed at the damage human beings do to one another . |
| 6 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 7 | I NEVER cease to be amazed at poor driving standards and lack of road manners shown by many drivers today . |
| 8 | The pattern of grouping described here is probably unique to Oxford United 's ground , but analogues of such groups appear to be present at all league club grounds — with the possible exception of some of the very small Fourth Division grounds . |
| 9 | CREB and ATF1 appear to be present at similar levels in immunoprecipitates obtained with the CREB antibody ( lane 2 ) suggesting that most of the CREB is in the form of a heterodimer with ATF1 . |
| 10 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 11 | Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals . |
| 12 | Unless subsequently agreed in writing , the charges relating to booking shall be those expected to be current at the time of the conference . |
| 13 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 14 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 15 | Then I looked at my watch , pretended to be surprised at the lateness of the hour , and dug both spurs into the flanks of the mule , hoping to God that a bullet would not follow my hasty departure . |
| 16 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
| 17 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 18 | Anyway Ronny scored a couple of goals in this match and was given 6 out of 6 point in Dagbladet and 9 out of 10 in VG so his form has to be excellent at the moment — i guess he will impress Ardiles and/or Wilko . |
| 19 | It is explained by the combination of the first two conditions , and since it is a performative purporting to affect the rights or duties of another , it has to be public at least in intention . |
| 20 | BGS has to be ready at all times to supply the wants of the market for geoscience and to be aware of potential sources of income , marketing efforts , public relations and promotional activities will be focused more on the commercial sector . |
| 21 | Playing the piano is something I love and I want to be brilliant at it . ’ |
| 22 | I mean most women just want to be good at something , they 've got good-at minds , and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not . |
| 23 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 24 | ‘ The trouble with my job at the moment is that I ca n't guarantee to be free at any given time . ’ |
| 25 | It can be shown that the most general form of W in an elastic body is W = and there are two simple forms of this relation applicable to rubbers ( which are considered to be incompressible at all events in mathematical terms though they are not in the strict sense incompressible physically ) . |
| 26 | Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital . |
| 27 | A group of English players are reported to be bitter at having been left out of the squad for next week 's world team championships , and inevitably , the name of the game for the next couple of days in the Open , which starts today , will be to try to make monkeys of those who omitted them . |
| 28 | Mr Bond was deemed to be insolvent at the time the bankruptcy judgment was entered against him and the bankruptcy notice was served — ‘ about three weeks ago ’ — but Mr Bond may have been insolvent before that time . |
| 29 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 30 | Unemployment believed to be impending at the start of the loan . |