Example sentences of "be [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are necessarily at a distance from them , detached . |
| 2 | Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming . |
| 3 | Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit . |
| 4 | The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution . |
| 5 | For a discipline which has made a speciality of the modern world we are somewhat at a disadvantage compared to journalists . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , if Qaddafi shows himself limited by this commonplace either-or , he has a decided advantage over West European or American anti-statesmen , who are generally at a loss to say how a society with only families will organize itself : what is to make the linkages among families ? — the market ? — a mafia ? — a telephone company ? |
| 7 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 8 | White kids are always at a disadvantage , ’ speculated Charles Taylor . |
| 9 | Calculating this , however , is fraught with difficulties and early leavers are usually at a disadvantage compared with those who remain in the scheme . |
| 10 | They are opposed to the suggestion that women with young children should stay at home rather than go to work , accept that women are still at a disadvantage when it comes to advancement at work , but they do n't think there should be more positive discrimination in women 's favour . |
| 11 | Nutrients are still at a premium here , so the plants form an association with a fungus pezzizella ericae which enables the heather to have a higher nitrogen uptake and to be more resistant to elements of heavy metals found in the soil . |
| 12 | When we discover that e-mail does not necessarily work like that , we are temporarily at a loss as to what to do about it . |
| 13 | If storage space and seating are both at a premium , try building in boxes around the perimeter of the room . |
| 14 | Children from China 's fifty-five minority groups are also at a disadvantage in the competition for higher education places , according to Cleverley . |
| 15 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 16 | Farming days at Bullpot are also at an end . |
| 17 | I am often at a loss to understand the sense of priorities or the lack of priority among Labour-controlled local authorities in particular . |
| 18 | We are now at a point in this evolution where , I believe , the climate is more favourable than hitherto to cooperation between linguists and educationalists . |
| 19 | Eisler says we are now at a crossroads . |
| 20 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said Edward Carrington , ‘ but I 'm rather at a loss . ’ |
| 22 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 23 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 24 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 25 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 26 | He ca n't , he ca n't be actually at a wedding because |
| 27 | Those who are without the support of a spouse and family or whose family relationships are inharmonious are frequently at a disadvantage . |
| 28 | And when it comes to other creatures , we are increasingly at a loss . |
| 29 | The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain . |
| 30 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |