Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe that Power Fluidics offers us a unique opportunity , and we are delighted to be at the forefront of the application of this technology . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're supposed to be at Sunday school . ’ |
| 3 | You 're supposed to be at work in less than an hour . |
| 4 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 5 | Although you may still find them on sale in the spring , they 're unlikely to be at their best by then so now is the time to buy them and get them planted before the bad frosts . |
| 6 | It can soldier on , living from day to day in the hope that it can attract support from MPs in one or another minority party — there are likely to be at least 50 such members — for each piece of legislation . |
| 7 | But the sale of the freight business and the franchising of passengers services to bring in outsiders are likely to be at distress prices . |
| 8 | These rates are likely to be at least matched in the 1990s when , between 1987–8 and 1992–3 , the corporation plans to invest at least £600 million — half through land sales and half through central grant ( LDDC , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | And with experts predicting that four million people will be ‘ teleworking ’ from home by 1995 , properties with rooms which could be converted for office use are likely to be at a premium . |
| 10 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 11 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 12 | Trees and shrubs ( including conifers and roses ) planted in winter and spring are likely to be at risk from drought at the moment . |
| 13 | Heads of Year are likely to be at the forefront of Compact development . |
| 14 | Any archaeological sites not destroyed in this process are likely to be at least as severely damaged by the roots of the trees , which are usually set as close together as is economically viable . |
| 15 | Scottish Action on Dementia has calculated that at present there are likely to be at least 91,000 sufferers in Scotland of whom more than half have moderate or severe dementia . |
| 16 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 17 | This does not mean that all these methods should be banned : on the contrary — banning contraception might simply lead to a sudden rise in both abortion and childbirth , both of which are likely to be at least as dangerous for women 's health in a poor country . |
| 18 | All those factors are likely to be at work now that the Soviet empire has disintegrated . |
| 19 | Working capital needs for a colliery are likely to be at least £5m to finance the output until you get paid . |
| 20 | When the trust is in demand , prices are likely to be at the upper end of the range and the trust is said to be on an ‘ offer ’ basis . |
| 21 | Make sure you know exactly which of the starts you are supposed to be at , and when . |
| 22 | I am supposed to be at GHQ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be at the Holborn library in ten minutes , ’ the researcher objected . |
| 24 | I 'm supposed to be at your mum 's for the weekend |
| 25 | Client areas may be keen to be at the leading edge in the use emerging technologies , often for all the best reasons , but sometimes to keep up with the latest toy . |
| 26 | In constituencies where the Tories were supposed to be at their most discredited , and thus most vulnerable to the Nationalists , they actually increased their votes and their majorities . |
| 27 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 28 | I thought you were supposed to be at the gallery ! |
| 29 | They were supposed to be at a play were n't they ? |
| 30 | As a result Mr Collin estimated the actual bills were likely to be at least 25pc higher than the official estimate . |