Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 2 | THE single market in Europe 's financial services is supposed to come into being at the end of 1992 . |
| 3 | It is likely , however , that at least 40% and possibly more of gas demand will by then be imported but as with oil the Netherlands will continue to benefit from being at the hub of European energy supply . |
| 4 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 5 | Various factors thus appear to be at the root of the inner city problem , many of them similar in nature to those behind the problems underlying the North-South divide . |
| 6 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 7 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 8 | Although the machine , which is designed to read hand print but not cursive writing , is expected to be at the Spring Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago , it is not expected to be available until early next year . |
| 9 | To deliver water from these depths the pumping machine has to be at the bottom of the well . |
| 10 | Where in the detective short story ingenuity was , in principle , the only quality called for , in the crime short story ingenuity has to be at the service of imagination . |
| 11 | Interestingly , and extremely non-intuitive , is that the clipping shape has to be at the ‘ back ’ of the drawing and not in front as might be expected . |
| 12 | Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others . |
| 13 | The national coach 's belief is that at the next meeting of the SFA 's International Committee the question of how club is currently strangling country has to be at the top of the agenda . |
| 14 | I want to be at the border by then and that 's two hundred and fifty miles after Tam . ’ |
| 15 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 16 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 17 | and hinted that it would probably be a good idea if the Rector of St. Mary 's , the Vicar of St. Peter 's , and Mr. John Meridyth ( another Grammar School Visitor from the 1850s ) , who were considered to be at the root of the trouble , were not appointed Trustees . |
| 18 | Now he was reported to be at the Mamounia in order to work on a book entitled The Mighty and the Meek . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister claims that he wants to be at the heart of Europe , but his real objective is a bypass operation . |
| 20 | We hope that these methods will help teachers themselves to enjoy poetry and to share their pleasure with their pupils : ‘ Poetry needs to be at the heart of work in English because of the quality of language at work on experience that it offers to us . |
| 21 | We need to ensure that our white collar members have the help and the support and the advice available to them , but that help and that advice needs to be at the right time and at the right place . |
| 22 | Proper audit er is the effective way er to detect fraud and that needs to be at the at the er the re requirement er er that we impose er on and I , as I pointed out er at the moment the auditors themselves are not being effectively er regulated . |
| 23 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 24 | The successful conclusion of my latest project — whatever that happens to be at the time . |
| 25 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 26 | ‘ And that was how she came to be at the reception ? ’ |
| 27 | Simon , 32 , plans to be at the birth . |
| 28 | and manager Smith plans to be at the Manor for a long time too … he 's brushed away speculation about going to Stoke … he 's happy at Oxford … well he will be when they start winning |
| 29 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |
| 30 | The informatics graduate can expect to be at the forefront of the development of new software products and tools or to follow a career in developing technology applications for a range of areas — from industry to the public sector and from health care to agriculture . |