Example sentences of "be at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're at thirty eight already . |
| 2 | You should have no difficulty guessing if you 're at all familiar with the zodiac . ’ |
| 3 | If you 're at all dissatisfied , simply return your order within 30 days of purchase for a refund of the unit price . |
| 4 | In the meantime I 'll arrange for our dietician to see you and we 'll keep a note of this for our own records , but if you 're at all worried , do come and see either myself or Dr Grant at any time . |
| 5 | If you 're at all unsure how to do such things , the slim manual covers the process in minute detail — almost too much detail for the more experienced user . |
| 6 | And if you 're at all suspicious of anyone who comes to your door — keep it firmly shut . |
| 7 | If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity . |
| 8 | If you 're at all concerned about the quality of drinking water abroad , the best advice is to avoid it and drink bottled water instead . |
| 9 | That 's why I say to you , you say oh we 've got this we 've got that we want that we want this but er I tell you two thousand nineteen and you 're at nineteen ninety two . |
| 10 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 12 | Right , so after twenty seconds they 're up to full speed , and flat out , erm they 're at forty five degrees . |
| 13 | Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence . |
| 14 | The properties that we 're building will be available er , the initial lettings a and sales will be one hundred percent er , to council nominees subsequent lettings and nominations will be at seventy one percent which is the maximum level that we can agree under the housing corporation rules . |
| 15 | At the top , leaders Whitby expect to be at virtual full strength for their game at Tow Law , who will be without Darren Darwen and Tony Higgs . |
| 16 | There are many sincere souls who find the idea of God becoming a human to be at best implausible , and at worst blasphemous . |
| 17 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 18 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 19 | Even if all these animals were buried on-farm , the long term environmental consequences would be at best uncertain " . |
| 20 | In these dialect-divergent studies ( J. Milroy , 1981 ; Johnston , 1983 ; Newbrook , 1986 ) , however , it is the linguistic analysis that is the greatest immediate challenge facing the investigator : if we do not investigate the internal linguistic structure of the speech community itself , the sociolinguistic interpretation of the data will be at best superficial , and , at worst , wrong . |
| 21 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 22 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 23 | And the suggestion was that it should be at nine thirty , and not ten thirty . |
| 24 | In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful . |
| 25 | The other lesson where I ‘ doubled-up ’ was observed by the Director of Studies , whose presence did not seem to be at all intrusive and distorting in effect . |
| 26 | The transfer price must be equal to the market price if it is to be at all relevant . |
| 27 | ‘ However , in deference to public opinion , the developers have decided to see if it would be at all possible to have the building renovated and brought back to its former glory . |
| 28 | I would n't be at all impressed with it . |
| 29 | I do n't think your mother and father would be at all keen on the idea . ’ |
| 30 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |