Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dreamed of the bloodied face with the girl 's hair swinging over it , and of Annabel 's children , and then he surfaced again and went for a walk through Covent Garden fruit market , where Mr. Jenkins must already be at work . |
| 2 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 3 | Details of clothing grants , free school meals and community contacts should also be at hand . |
| 4 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 5 | Given the prospect that that her father is actually the father of this child do you that she 'll still be at home ? |
| 6 | Might not the electrodes , the constraining wires , and the very fact of being observed in a laboratory , not only delay sleep but actually alter the quality of sleep from what it might usually be at home ? |
| 7 | Are ye telling me ye 'll ever be at home among them ? ’ |
| 8 | When a new Arab-Israeli crisis broke out in May 1967 , the General linked it closely to the war in Asia and predicted to Harold Wilson that the world might well be at war by September . |
| 9 | The Bill will be a further significant contribution towards the vital aim of bringing reassurance to people who might otherwise be at risk of losing their homes . |
| 10 | The gas and electricity companies suffer from the scourge of meter-reading and despite 3m unemployed still do n't seem to be able to find anybody to go round knocking on doors at times when anybody that works might actually be at home , and the water companies are moving to metering . |
| 11 | ‘ She may still be at lunch , ’ she said . |
| 12 | However , there is also a case for including acts of gross indecency performed on or with girls of 18 years and below who may still be at school and dependent on their parents , since such acts too may be highly damaging . |
| 13 | Since the cancers may take several decades to appear , some of those children may still be at risk . |
| 14 | HELP could soon be at hand for Britain 's 500,000 stammerers . |
| 15 | Neil Kinnock , according to both ITN and the BBC , could still be at Number 10 tomorrow . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd still be at home now if … ’ |
| 17 | Although there are particular occupational groups who have always been at risk , such as sewer workers , miners , farm workers and slaughterhouse workers , the working population and residents of the new London Dockland system could also be at risk . |
| 18 | The decison to seek new management means the jobs of a further 25 people could now be at risk . |
| 19 | Other mechanisms may also be at work . |
| 20 | The life of a business or operation may also be at risk for few industries have such a strong and demanding legal code where failure to comply may result in immediate closure or prosecution . |
| 21 | An effective solution to the problem may now be at hand . |
| 22 | But yes , I would rather be at home if I had the choice . |
| 23 | Many children grow up to enjoy satisfactory lives who are clinically termed severely handicapped , yet they would apparently be at risk of being allowed to die due to the severity of their handicap . |
| 24 | A mission mounted jointly by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the International Council of Bird Preservation warned on March 14 that hundreds of thousands of migratory birds , which used the beaches , salt marshes and mudflats of the Gulf as resting places , would shortly be at risk as they arrived en route from East Africa to northern Asia and Europe . |
| 25 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 26 | The fact that they would both be at Anpetuwi for the summer ? |
| 27 | Held , granting the declaration , that in a situation in which the lives of mother and the unborn child would both be at risk if the operation were not performed , it was open to the court to make a declaration that the operation could be performed notwithstanding the mother 's refusal of consent . |
| 28 | The future of our Northwich and St Helens breweries would inevitably be at risk . |
| 29 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 30 | The Milan-based Centre for Cetacean Studies , in association with several other wildlife and research groups , has petitioned the Italian Government for an end to the swordfish drift-net fishery , warning that the cetacean populations of the Italian seas would otherwise be at risk of extinction by the year 2000 . |