Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [be] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 2 | St Augustine 's and St Bede 's in Darlington are manifestly good schools which were at risk of becoming bad schools because of overcrowding . |
| 3 | I have heard stories from Rangers fans who were at elland road for the euro tie last year , that the leeds fans applauded the Gers off the pitch at the end of the match . |
| 4 | TEENAGERS who were at school with alleged foster parents ' cruelty victim Paul Llewelyn Jones told a court yesterday they remembered seeing marks on his body . |
| 5 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 6 | For more than two months he was at peace with himself and the world . |
| 7 | What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality . |
| 8 | The first option is the more likely , since it appears that it is not just one but several dispositions which are at issue . |
| 9 | ‘ In addition , it is likely that Customs will also seek to prevent the recovery of VAT on other costs incurrred by holding companies which is at present recoverable , for example the costs incurred in restructuring a commercial group . |
| 10 | However , the change in safety regulations and the harder line taken is not sufficient compensation for the curtailing and running down of health and safety inspections , nor the differences in health and safety regulations which exist between companies operating on land , and those , such as contractors on off-shore oil rigs who are at sea . |
| 11 | Whether these rational and progressive responses to the problem of sea-level rise will satisfy the coastal dwellers who are at risk is an open question . |
| 12 | Quite a number of the musicians who are at home in the ‘ renewal ’ idiom have grown up outside the Church . |
| 13 | Safe working practices and procedures are the first line of defence against exposure to hepatitis B infection , but vaccination is essential to protect workers who are at risk . |
| 14 | For several days he was at death 's door , and a grave had been kept ready in case the worst happened . |
| 15 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |
| 16 | It was further agreed that their structure , and the basis on which we conducted them , was a sensible way of covering all the questions which are at issue . |
| 17 | So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff . |
| 18 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 19 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 20 | You may recall delegates who were at congress last year , that I spoke about governments having the moral support of the people . |
| 21 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 22 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 23 | A recent High Court decision has considered the liability of auditors who were at fault in failing to qualify their report on a company 's accounts . |
| 24 | [ C. William Miller , ‘ Henry Herringman , Restoration Bookseller-Publisher ’ , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , vol. xlii , 1948 , pp. 292–306 ; Henry R. Plomer , A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England , Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 , 1907 ; Carshalton , St Dunstan in the West , and St Martin-in-the-Fields parish registers ; Henry Herringman 's will , PROB/11/474/40 . ] |
| 25 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 26 | Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality . |
| 27 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 28 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 29 | And now I see girls women who are obviously the daughters who er of girls who were at school with me . |
| 30 | NAPSAC , which has just ended a successful pilot year , aims to establish links between agencies and individuals working with people with learning disabilities who are at risk . |