Example sentences of "[verb] be at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 2 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 3 | Generally , it seems the response of social services has been at individual crisis level , rather than reaching out to travellers . |
| 4 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 5 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 6 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 7 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 8 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 9 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 10 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 11 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 12 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 13 | Q8 The answer is Yes since there is no longer a capital investment to finance and buying is at competitive prices . |
| 14 | We therefore believe that , provided level-1 lesions are not included in the calculation ( because of uncertainty about whether they are progressive ) , our findings support the hypothesis that patients in categories A–D are at increased risk of developing melanoma . |
| 15 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 16 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 17 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 18 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 19 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 20 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 21 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 22 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 23 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 24 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 25 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 26 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 27 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 28 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 29 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 30 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |