Example sentences of "[adj] be at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Who on earth could that be at this hour ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | When he proposed a shilling on prescriptions , one shilling and that 's At that time , Ni Bevan started himself started to deteriorate . |
| 9 | And that 's at that age ! |
| 10 | Yes erm Policy E two was at that time was er relating to programme of tree planting er . |
| 11 | That was at that catalogue . |
| 12 | That was at this end one that er Josie was talking about today . |
| 13 | The terrible fire , which had destroyed the historical centre of Lisbon in the summer of 1988 was at that time still fresh in the memory . |