Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 2 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 3 | Northallerton surprisingly crashed 52 at home to Easington , after being level at half time . |
| 4 | That would of been interested at Sue 's . |
| 5 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 6 | Davidson , who was probably the closest of Baldwin 's confidants at the time and who also had the advantage of being present at Aix , was equally muddled in his explanations . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps the most accessible form of freedom , the most subjectively enjoyed , and the most useful to human society , consists of being good at your job … ’ . |
| 8 | And if any entity , anywhere in the universe , happens to have the property of being good at making more copies of itself , then automatically more and more copies of that entity will obviously come into existence . |
| 9 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 10 | He was , of course , capable of being sarcastic at their expense . |
| 11 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 12 | The list of contents — ‘ Borley Rectory ’ , ‘ The Isle of Man Polecat ’ , ‘ No. 18 Dennington Road ’ , ‘ The Man with the Limp ’ — reminded me of being ill at boarding school . |
| 13 | Another approach to handling inter-disciplinarity is to educate agricultural engineers and administrators into the way of being sympathetic at least to these social factors . |
| 14 | It just was n't a thing you could ignore , and being alone at it was to combine the worst elements of being alone at any other time , and multiply them by two hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 16 | In ( 22 ) the suggestion is that the occurrence of being alone at the bar was not only unexpected but undesirable . |
| 17 | It was more like being present at a seance than at a lecture . |
| 18 | They know that there will be subjects to choose between at the right moment ( or , sometimes , subjects for which their children will not be chosen ) and they associate the chances of doing well at , for instance , GCSE level in mathematics with being good at maths in the primary school . |
| 19 | Although I had n't had as many fish as the bait fishers I was very pleased with the success and the quality and also with being afloat at sea in such idyllic circumstances . |
| 20 | they 've got ta be brilliant at it But |
| 21 | Got ta be lucky at something ai n't you Ive ? |
| 22 | erm , the one thing that I thought was under person who is who is talking he 's got ta be I think he 's got ta be firm so that the person understands that erm that what is required but he 's also got ta be fair at the same time has n't he ? |
| 23 | Far from being overjoyed at the apparent climbdown protesters believe it 's a plot to throw them off their guard . |
| 24 | Nobody wanted to be mean at such a time . |
| 25 | Mr Scott 's second suggestion , b ) , that the Garden should create and staff a new post of Computer Manager , was felt to be unnecessary at present , since the Computer Support Officer is the person who will be carrying out most of the tasks outlined by Mr Scott . |
| 26 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 27 | He said he wanted to be pleased at this news , but had been unable to confirm whether it was true or not , since Susan had not requested assistance in the boy 's upbringing , nor did she intend to call on him for support . |
| 28 | She supposed she ought to be pleased at this fresh evidence of Luke 's sensitivity . |
| 29 | I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players . |
| 30 | And to be visible at such a great distance , the object must be very bright , must , in other words , be emitting a huge amount of energy . |