Example sentences of "[adj] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 2 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 3 | Also , when families are providing care for a disabled relative they usually want to continue to do so if this is at all possible . |
| 4 | These inferences are based on the remarkable robustness of the assumption of cooperation : if someone drastically and dramatically deviates from maxim-type behaviour , then his utterances are still read as underlyingly co-operative if this is at all possible . |
| 5 | And they did n't , this is at half seven , they 're out shopping , everybody walks through , right . |
| 6 | None of this was at all to the Moroccan 's taste : ‘ The idea of having my baggage searched was most disagreeable to me . |
| 7 | It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet . |
| 8 | Her husband had been taken into hospital and she was waiting for her son to come and pick her up at half past twelve , this was at half past ten in morning ! |
| 9 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 10 | This system is favoured by Compass on the X-100 these are at each end of columns of AA cells which are held together by the spring pressure . |
| 11 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 12 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 13 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 14 | Who on earth could that be at this hour ? |
| 15 | And finally , surely at this present moment , only four miles east of Harrogate and about three miles east of Ripon the A s A one is at this very moment in time being lifted to an acceptable standard A motorway standard at this stage and not in the year two thousand which is what you 're talking about for this road . |
| 16 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 17 | ‘ Of those , at least 25,000 were at such a desperate level of starvation that they would have died had the food reached them any later . |
| 18 | Perhaps because her own was at that time lumpen and awkward she seemed to feel the contrast painfully — such high , generous breasts , such a neat waist , such slender wrists and ankles ! |
| 19 | It is necessary to prepare tor convalescence before you go into hospital if that is at all possible . |
| 20 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |
| 21 | And that 's at that age ! |
| 22 | When he proposed a shilling on prescriptions , one shilling and that 's At that time , Ni Bevan started himself started to deteriorate . |
| 23 | But there 's something in even the very best of us which would really prefer to take the easy way out , if that 's at all possible . |
| 24 | If that 's at all true , I 'd like to help to get things straight . |
| 25 | But if y'have t'shoot , aim to disable rather than kill , if that 's at all possible without puttin' y'self at risk . ’ |
| 26 | Yes erm Policy E two was at that time was er relating to programme of tree planting er . |
| 27 | At the first meeting of the Central Authority , Shinwell had told Citrine and his colleagues that a reasonable aim would be to meet full demand by 1951 ‘ if that was at all possible ’ in the light of other national investment demands . |
| 28 | That was at that catalogue . |
| 29 | That was at this end one that er Josie was talking about today . |
| 30 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |