Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to note that in order for the defendant to be liable at all , he must owe the plaintiff a duty of care . |
| 2 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 3 | The Australian High Court delivered a key ruling on June 3 on the issue of Aboriginal land rights , by effectively overturning the notion of terra nullius — the concept that had deemed the Australian continent to be unoccupied at the time of European settlement in the 18th century . |
| 4 | I imagined Marie Claire coming to England in the cold to be present at my marriage . |
| 5 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |
| 6 | It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough . |
| 7 | The Act continues : ‘ Where a children 's hearing are satisfied in a case concerned with an offence mentioned in the Criminal Procedure ( Scotland ) Act of 1975 , that the attendance of a child is not necessary for the just hearing of that case , or in any case where they are satisfied that it would be detrimental to the interest of the child to be present at the hearing of his case , the case in whole or in part , may be considered in the absence of the child . ’ |
| 8 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 9 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 10 | We are responsible for setting the overall budget for the Video and for making any decisions which affect this budget and which relate to the educational purpose of the Video as set out in Schedule A. We have the right to be present at any or all of the stages of production , shooting and editing in order to fulfill these responsibilities . |
| 11 | ‘ Any man who is banker to the great John Stevenson has a right to be happy at this hour , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Of these 36 errors , all but one were detected because the initial lexical look-up found no other candidate string to be allowable at each of these word positions . |
| 13 | Cutting down on your drinking , even during the last few months of your pregnancy , will help your baby to be healthy at birth . |
| 14 | If you both want the father to be present at the birth , ask about arrangements for this at the hospital as early as you can . |
| 15 | And that I had the nerve and the cheek , the audacity to be tired at fifteen years of age i i it it it was n't possible . |
| 16 | It is possible for more than one social role to be relevant at one time . |
| 17 | The right of the inspector to be present at a review board had been legally challenged on one occasion and it was obviously necessary that he should be permitted to attend . |
| 18 | Services will continue as at present to be free at the point of delivery . |
| 19 | ( a ) Incorporation The first requirement for an exclusion clause to be effective at common law is that the clause must be incorporated into the contract . |
| 20 | Instinctual repression of both sexuality and of violent aggressive impulses are necessary for any human society to be possible at all , the former helping to counteract the destructive aggressive impulses . |
| 21 | The Communist Party , reduced to a low level , had good reason to be concerned at the threat of a new Left party . |
| 22 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 23 | Isaac 's elderly parents have reason to be overjoyed at his birth . |
| 24 | It is right for the rest of the world to be concerned at what is happening in Germany . |
| 25 | When it was first available 1-2-3 Release 3 was a product that was before its time — a 3D spreadsheet that allowed file linking and more than one program to be open at a time . |
| 26 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |
| 27 | The only way to be good at this job is to put everything you 've got into it . |
| 28 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 29 | In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day . |
| 30 | In that trial the author was defended on the grounds that he had to transgress moral respectability in order to be moral at a deeper , more authentic level dictated by personal conscience . |