Example sentences of "be at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 2 | Yeah , you 're at the right end ! |
| 3 | We 're at the right speed here Peter , we 're okay . |
| 4 | Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're pleased about the reed warblers : they 're at the north-westerly edge of their breeding range here , ’ he went on . |
| 6 | It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're at the final state of putting proposals together . ’ |
| 8 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
| 9 | If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in . |
| 10 | We 're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental . |
| 11 | providing you 're at the same time . |
| 12 | She said , any time at all if we 're at the same time . |
| 13 | that Mary er Mary 's da , one of Mary 's daughters and one of Christine 's daughters , they 're at the same college or something , they 're big friends ! |
| 14 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 15 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
| 16 | Well see you 're at the wrong colour . |
| 17 | You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay . |
| 18 | I 'm at the long ledge below the final wall of the Nose , where the Direct , Superdirect , and other routes not mentioned by Ron James converge . |
| 19 | I 'm at the same hotel as we stayed at last time-but it 's not the same without you and Rosie . |
| 20 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 21 | The post , which is at research officer level , will be for two years in the first instance , with the possibility of extension , and the salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1A scale ( £ –£18 165 per annum ) with USS . |
| 22 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
| 23 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |
| 24 | Where the beneficiary receives dividends paid after 5 April 1993 , the value of the credit will be at the lower rate . |
| 25 | Just when their prospects appeared to be at the lowest ebb , Murray , in the 3,000 metres , and McKean , at 800m , pulled off a golden double triumph in Toronto at the World Indoor Championships . |
| 26 | However , the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band on the first 2,000 of taxable income in March 1992 should help improve the position of some 4 million people who are thought to be at the lowest end of the income scale . |
| 27 | Mrs McCarthy said : ‘ Police protection this weekend will be at the highest level , particularly in view of the historic importance of the Cobham Hall buildings and grounds . ’ |
| 28 | Using a rather perplexing argument , Japan 's deputy finance minister complained with only a slight tinge of panic yesterday that the Nikkei should be at the 24,000 level . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You need a seat which supports your back and the book should be at the right distance from your eyes ( the optimum reading distance is between 15 and 22 inches from your eyes ) . |