Example sentences of "at [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 2 | And there was nothing at all to be afraid of . |
| 3 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 4 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 5 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 6 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 7 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 8 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |