Example sentences of "be [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in my experience it 's quite normal for erm a period after the close of the enquiry to be erm given to erm the planning authority or authorities to on other matters which are outstanding at the close of the enquiry , whether it 's two weeks , whether it 's whether it 's very very common , it 's it 's reasonable that the authority should have that opportunity to . |
| 2 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 3 | But you have a reception at the Saudi-Arabian ambassador 's at seven , a meeting with the US Under-Secretary of the Interior about the Little Big Inch Pipeline at eight ; Simon Scher is meeting with you at St-Cloud at nine , and you are due at the duchesse de Quinsac-Plessan 's reception at ten … ‘ |
| 4 | They are due at the Ulster Hall on September 28 and at the Rialto in Londonderry on September 30 and Little Brown Jug , In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade will be ringing out once more . |
| 5 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 6 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 7 | ‘ He is not my lover , ’ Ruth stated emphatically , ‘ but yes , I am upset at the thought of him spending time with Maria Luisa . |
| 8 | You obviously think so and that indicates what I had suspected all along — that you really are upset at the thought of your lover being away with Maria Luisa ; hence your ridiculous outcries and accusations . ’ |
| 9 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 10 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 11 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 12 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 13 | Jobs are scarce at the moment , so you 've got to be realistic . ’ |
| 14 | In general , chloride concentrations are high at the edges of the woodland and low in the centre . |
| 15 | Surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister , and surely what really provoked the rabble opposite to make such a din is that they are embarrassed at the sound of their own policies . |
| 16 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 17 | The curtains are light at the window . |
| 18 | Victorian girls ' names like Emma , Daisy , Rose and Jessica are popular at the moment , as are biblical names — Benjamin , Adam , Samuel , Rebecca and Rachel . |
| 19 | For all our bullshit about adventure , most of us are craven at the crutch . |
| 20 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 21 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 22 | Leeds are OK at the back , it 's all down to the front man not earning his transfer fee basically . |
| 23 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 24 | ‘ A ’ level entrants and mature students who wish to join the HND course must enrol for the three-week Conversion Course ( two weeks of which are residential at the Jordanstown campus early in September ) . |
| 25 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 26 | The only situation in which I am interested at the moment is the wholly ordinary one of sitting at Joanna 's tiller . |
| 27 | Hill goes on : ‘ I also have to state that I am staggered at the amount of money that appears to be owing and am at a loss to understand how such a situation has been reached . |
| 28 | The researchers also saw changes in particle distribution and that the changes in auroral formation are different at the centre . |
| 29 | Moving signs , while using some form of sequence information , can either be temporally redundant ( i.e. have position features which are similar at the start and finish of the sign ) or be temporally salient ( i.e. have position features which are different at the start and the finish of the sign ) . |
| 30 | And Flanagan , a close friend of Best , added : ‘ I am delighted at the way things have worked out for Nigel — because the fans do n't realise how much pressure he was under when he took the job . |