Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps we are striking form at the right time , especially among the forwards . |
| 2 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 3 | Teachers in first schools are often more used to working in the classroom alongside other professionals than those who are subject specialists at the secondary school level . |
| 4 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 5 | Once you are comfortable walking at the 60 per cent level , then experiment up to the 70–75 per cent level . |
| 6 | Roses are heavy feeders at the best of times , and pruning for more and better bloom drives a plant even harder . |
| 7 | There may be justifiable frustration at the low priority currently assigned to Rights of Way in county highway departments , but we think it may be better to ensure statutory responsibility remains within local government so that the interests of pedestrians , riders and cyclists can be greatly enhanced as part of a wider ‘ greening ’ of local transport policies . |
| 8 | Kevin Maxwell and Brian Horton will be answering questions at the next Oxford United supporters forum , which will be held at the supporter 's club . |
| 9 | The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams . |
| 10 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 11 | The necessity of job retention in healthy profitable industries such as banking and criticism of the failure to deliver on promises made a year ago of ‘ several hundred new jobs ’ were strong themes at the second Biennial Delegate Conference of the Association held in the Burlington Hotel on Saturday , 24th April 1993 . |
| 12 | She said there were seasonal opportunities at the top end of the restaurant trade and predicted real volume opportunities in frozen , value-added products . |
| 13 | According to the publicity department of the studio which had trained her , Lorna Lewis was a luscious Swedish beauty whose parents were leading actors at the famous Stockholm National Theatre . |
| 14 | They would operate from roomy vicarages with ample grounds and were welcome guests at the highest tables in their parishes . |
| 15 | Dougal believed that cars were unpredictable creatures at the best of times . |
| 16 | The shaded area is empty space at the notional crack tip . |
| 17 | In common with Boyd 's previous works the text is authoritative while at the same time highly readable . |
| 18 | That 's general policy at the present time it 's a fairly woolly objective that we did n't try at the review , but the traffic management facilities and provisions are observed |
| 19 | There is general disgust at the short non-custodial sentences that are being passed because of the absence of space in prisons of various sorts . |
| 20 | Nicholson is general manager at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea 's Business Resource Centre . |
| 21 | Of course , the marginal revenue of Division A is simply the transfer price as it can only sell to Division B. So we should work out A 's marginal costs at the required level of group activity and set the transfer price equal to that . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's clean water at the Commemorative Hall . |
| 23 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 24 | Given the legal complexities of Community Charge and the rate of change it is essential that there are senior managers at the higher Principal Officer grade who can be responsible for particular aspects of Council Tax as well as being responsible for an operational group . |
| 25 | From 1982–1990 she was Botanical Illustrator at the National Museum of Wales . |
| 26 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 27 | THERE was outstanding trade at the weekly sale in Saintfield Livestock mart where top price in the fat cow sale went to C Shaw for a Charolais , 770 kgs at £875 . |
| 28 | In London he became a member of the congregation of J. Baldwin Brown , a famous Congregational preacher in Brixton , and in 1876 he was ordained minister at the Congregational church in Shipley , near Bradford . |
| 29 | This is the first exhibition of Bruskin 's work in Moscow since his ‘ Fundamental Lexicon ’ was top lot at the 1987 Sotheby 's Moscow sale and since his emigration in 1988 . |
| 30 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |