Example sentences of "be [indef pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 2 | There had been nothing at all before . |
| 3 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 4 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 5 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 6 | In most years , rail deaths are few : in some there are none at all . |
| 7 | However Scotland 's largest education authority , Strathclyde Regional Council , was able to say yesterday that there had been none at all in its area since the establishment of the council in the mid-Seventies . |
| 8 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm nothing at all to you except an unwelcome visitor . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What would be more impressive would be nothing at all , since they 're casting another protest show . |
| 11 | His life seemed worthless — he was used to that — but there seemed to be nothing at all to contain it . |
| 12 | Go on , be nothing at all , life urges . |
| 13 | If this is the case do n't immediately reach for the reset or on/off button because there might be nothing at all wrong . |
| 14 | It might be nothing at all . |
| 15 | ‘ We need to go back to 1979 when we had adequate services up here , when there were eleven trains a day from Hartlepool to Darlington , not three as there now are and from May there will be none at all . |
| 16 | This may be anyone at all ; it may be a friend or relative ; it may be a lawyer , although the Hearing is not a court and the lawyer has no legal status . |
| 17 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 18 | And would there be anything at all ? |
| 19 | Could be anything at all . |
| 20 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 21 | He was impressed , too , by the way Laura dealt with disasters , of which there were plenty at that time . |
| 22 | In Jewish , Christian and Islamic tradition the word ‘ God ’ is used for God not because its meaning is thought to correspond to the nature of God , but simply as a convenient label for the ultimate , altogether incomprehensible mystery because of which things exist instead of there not being anything at all . |
| 23 | There 's nothing at all sinister in that . |
| 24 | And then he left the conference with the closing statement : ‘ There 's nothing at all in what I 've said to suggest there is anything improper . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes there 's nothing at all , especially in good summer weather . |
| 26 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe there 's nothing at all . |
| 28 | Apart from standing up and sitting down there 's nothing at all to do . ’ |
| 29 | She 's nothing at all as I imagined . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing at all to talk out . |