Example sentences of "to be [noun] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 2 | That , and we 've had this in the past , where I would say that people that live in Yarbury North and South probably do earn less and live in houses that probably are , do n't have as big gardens and things like that , so the natu the nature of the is that they probably do earn less money erm but I I do n't consider those to be ghettos at all . |
| 3 | Vaclav Havel , Czechoslovak President since December 1989 , announced on April 14 that he would seek a further term as President " not because I want to be President at any cost … but because I want to contribute towards pushing through certain values " . |
| 4 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 5 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 6 | It was hardly likely to be business at this hour . |
| 7 | Thus , the signal degrades and , eventually , becomes unintelligible — that is , the information it carries will fail to be information at all . |
| 8 | It may even be , if the young people involved broadly adopt the ‘ parent ’ culture , that they turn out not to be imperatives at all . |