Example sentences of "being at " in BNC.
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| 1 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 2 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 3 | From the novelist 's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder . |
| 4 | being at a loose end is not the condition of us spiritual and working animals , it is not being a man among men . |
| 5 | As a divider ( Fig.5 ) , the Z input becomes the numerator , the denominator being at X. Gain is , again , adjustable by the use of an attenuator between output and Y2 , a technique that is used to advantage in the percentage computer in Fig. 6 , which gives the percentage deviation of A against B on a scale of 1 V per 1% . |
| 6 | The concentrations are very variable , but though there is evidence of their being at higher levels near cities and urban areas , there is no necessary connection with waste-disposal sites . |
| 7 | Father McGuinness has decided , for the time being at least , to keep his profile low . |
| 8 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 9 | Being at the bottom , they feel their contribution often goes unrecognized , at least by the authorities . |
| 10 | The artist is being at once more primitive as well as more civilized , than his contemporaries . |
| 11 | In this confrontation across the divide of gender one is compelled to put one 's whole being at risk ( p. 307 ) . |
| 12 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 13 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 14 | Professionals ' self-esteem had been founded upon being at the top of the manual wages pyramid . |
| 15 | It 's like being at the sea , early in the morning with the seagulls and the sea pounding away and the fresh air . |
| 16 | Anything to break the monotony of waiting , yet being at a split second 's notice to move , to any incident , anywhere in the city . |
| 17 | Philip had the remarkable ability to cross cultures , being at home with the CUMers who often called him ‘ Uncle Philip . ’ |
| 18 | The gospels show that discipleship sometimes means being at odds with the State . |
| 19 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 20 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 21 | Being at home with small babies is an instant culture shock to the young woman of the world . |
| 22 | But I guess , one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association , rather than being at the peak of one . |
| 23 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 24 | About twenty per cent goes on the maintenance of the forces in being at the time . |
| 25 | Two events occurred that ensured , for the time being at least , no such a change in Congressional attitudes would occur . |
| 26 | THE single market in Europe 's financial services is supposed to come into being at the end of 1992 . |
| 27 | Ironically those same purposes include , as we have seen , the recreation of a world where such exclusion is not to be found , but instead there is harmony , joy , and a universal sense of belonging and being at home . |
| 28 | His garden is well-sheltered , being at sea-level and screened by trees , and has well-drained subsoil , so autumn sowing is a good idea . |
| 29 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 30 | They explain that they have always fended for themselves because of being at work , but when it comes to going home the difficulties begin . |