Example sentences of "[to-vb] be at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 2 | The threshold at which mental handicap is considered to commence is at an IQ of 70 , although people with IQs of between 50 and 70 are considered only mildly mentally handicapped , and most children in this category will pass through the educational process along with other children . |
| 3 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 4 | His involvement with the practicalities of such development seems to have been at the level of experience as well as theory . |
| 5 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 6 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 7 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 8 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 9 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |