Example sentences of "[noun sg] be at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you listen to the music on individual programmes you will soon get a fair idea of where the playlist is at each week . |
| 2 | If the bailiff knows or ascertains before notice of non-service is sent that the defendant is at another address within the district , he should attempt to serve the summons there and state the new address in his certificate of service ( Ord 7 , r 17(3) ) . |
| 3 | The subconscious mind is at all times fully protective and will not allow the patient to betray himself by his actions or his words . |
| 4 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 5 | Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ . |
| 6 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 7 | The reverse had a marked impact on Moltke , whose mental concentration was at that time directed to the western theatre . |
| 8 | The flag at Magdalen College was at half mast today as students learned of the death of Leigh Don Lau . |
| 9 | The flag at Wadham college was at half mast today as a mark of respect for the two men . |
| 10 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 11 | The institution was at that time entirely concerned with the education of teachers and future teachers , and recruited predominantly , though not exclusively , from the conurbation in which it was located , and which it was designed to serve . |
| 12 | None of the requests for housing requirement are at that level . |
| 13 | My standard of tennis is at that level where merely returning a serve constitutes a match highlight . |
| 14 | No no I we 're not saying that at all , that 's a different proposition entirely er certainly the County Council is at this moment in time committed to an outer northern relief road , I do n't think there 's any question of that . |
| 15 | Now the Chancellor is at this time usually an ecclesiastic , commonly a bishop , and , as such , interested in , and , at least in his own opinion , a good judge of questions of morality or ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 16 | In addition , the German question and the European question are inseparable : ‘ the German question is at all times a European question too . ’ |
| 17 | Today the flag was at half mast . |
| 18 | The Council was at this stage receiving not only reports from its committees but also the reports of visiting parties . |
| 19 | Her teeth were equally so , and her fresh complexion was at that time glowing with good health ; her blond hair is a beautiful shining blond colour . |
| 20 | Small traces may not hurt , but in households where modern hygiene has become a fanatical pursuit , the unhappy pet is at some risk . |
| 21 | Norwich Union 's aim is at all times to provide a first class standard of service . |
| 22 | This need not , however , suggest ( as Saunders sometimes does indeed imply ) that owner-occupation is at all times and in all places an optimum means of gaining control over one 's own life . |
| 23 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 24 | The windows of the Iranian embassy in Washington were forever hung with pots of caviar and magnums of Don Perignon and the whole town was at this feet — until they were swept by the revolution from under him . |
| 25 | The typical industrial town was at this period still a medium-sized city , even by contemporary standards , though as it happened in central and eastern Europe some capital cities ( which tended to be very large ) also became major centres of manufacturing — e.g. Berlin , Vienna and St Petersburg . |
| 26 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 27 | It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal . |
| 28 | I mean , your husband was at this party in … ? ’ |
| 29 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 30 | To square this with interference phenomena it is necessary to suppose the existence of a strange force acting on the electron as it traverses , say , the top slit , whose nature depends on whether the bottom slit is at that instant open or shut . |