Example sentences of "be [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already mentioned the fact that some religious traditions would deny ( or at least dispute ) the fact that they are theistic at all . |
| 2 | For many of us there are the added problems of the other commitments that are normal at this time of our lives . |
| 3 | I am alive at last . |
| 4 | ‘ Your emotions are strong at this moment . ’ |
| 5 | If my maternal brother is all sweetness and light , my father 's sister is a real dragon — a cold , formally distant aunt with whom no liberties are possible at all . |
| 6 | Thus , if only one or two dated skeletons are excavated , sex , age , disease and measurement may be noted but deductions as to the morphological affinities of these individuals with other peoples of the period could only be very tentative , if they are possible at all . |
| 7 | Similarly some attempts at self-dressing are possible at this age ( excluding buttons and fastenings ) while a 5-year-old should be able to manage all aspects of getting dressed . |
| 8 | Some do not realise that they are pregnant at all , like Lorraine , who had never even started her periods . |
| 9 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 10 | It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four . |
| 11 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 12 | Yet it is worth reminding Catholics that when Paul in the New Testament refers to the saints ( hagioi ) he means the church people who are alive at that time . |
| 13 | A nearly constant fraction of fetuses that are alive at 23 weeks ' gestation die each subsequent week , indicating that every fetus faces a random , but statistically predictable , risk of intrauterine death throughout pregnancy . |
| 14 | She waved and I did a U-turn — taxis are ace at that — and headed back to the nightmare in the bathroom . |
| 15 | On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " . |
| 16 | Since the series impedances are small and the parallel impedances are high at low frequencies , while the opposite is the case at high frequencies , this network behaves as a low-pass filter . |
| 17 | We looked at things like how to abseil off a cliff hundreds of feet high , while protecting the person you are guiding at all times . |
| 18 | Certain Scotvec modules are acceptable at appropriate levels as an alternative to O/S or Higher qualifications . |
| 19 | and it 's not been funny at all , he 's laughing about it but I 've had to cope with it |
| 20 | it 's not been funny at all |
| 21 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 22 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 23 | I do n't want to give the impression that professionals are unhelpful at all . |
| 24 | March is often a windy month and because the winds are unsteady at this time of year there is always a chance of very changeable weather from day to day . |
| 25 | Turn to page 10 to see at a glance which sports are free at each Club . |
| 26 | ‘ What I meant was , , said the oldest son , ‘ is that we are free at last . |
| 27 | Since whether this is permissible proves to be a widely disputed proposition , the position that animal protection , or compassion for animals , or our human responsibility to other animals are exhausted by the prohibition against cruelty also are question-begging at best , mistaken at worst . |
| 28 | Women are old when they reach 60 and men are old at 65 . |
| 29 | But the analogies which are used to justify the transition are dubious at best . |
| 30 | The Femidom is a new female condom looking very much like a larger version of the male variety , except these things are ribbed at both ends , a bit like a fisherman 's keep net . |