Example sentences of "be at [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're at Zog Central , ’ said Jason . |
| 2 | There had been a group , not known as anyone , but who played some well-known songs , and went round Primary Schools in the Debenham pyramid , playing to the children who would , one day , be at Debenham High School . |
| 3 | A.1.1 is now and shall be at Completion true and accurate ; and |
| 4 | A lot of people say I 'm bloody lucky to get paid for being at home sick ! |
| 5 | These were at Peppard Common — a nine-hole course opened in 1894 , and Maidenhead — opened in 1898 . |
| 6 | When they were at home unmarried , they were strictly chaperoned . |
| 7 | Not all members of commissions could be stifled , however , and debates were at times acrimonious . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the Cuban revolution , the Communists , forced to contend with Castroite , Maoist and Trotskyist dissenters , all of whom advocated armed struggle , were at times uncertain how to respond to the rise of guerrilla activity in their own countries . |
| 9 | By late that night , two of those staffers were at Baghdad International airport . |
| 10 | The studies had shown these suddenly visible ‘ informals ’ were at heart tiny capitalist individualists . |
| 11 | Well , the only racing writers who were at Down Royal for the two day July meeting when the new stand was put into use for the first time were Tony and Peter O'Hehir and myself . |
| 12 | Here , as Professor Mathias has pointed out , aggregated receipts were at lev-els comparable to those of the government for civil expenditure . |
| 13 | The main service sites were at Kidderminster General Hospital and the Worcester County Infirmary , providing a combined total of 210 beds . |
| 14 | The controls are at waist level with simmer settings on all hotplate burners . |
| 15 | He is not allowed to dissect the fossils , though , since they are at present irreplaceable . |
| 16 | Statistical methods of analysing the large amounts of data which can arise from such studies are at present inadequate . |
| 17 | To extend higher education opportunities for those who are at present under-represented in higher education . |
| 18 | Very well ; perhaps it may have come to your notice that those self-same premises are at present vacant , and advertised to be let ? ’ |
| 19 | Once all the relevant information needed to make a placement decision has been obtained , it is necessary to consider what educational opportunities are at present available for the visually handicapped pupil and sometimes what new opportunities , especially in integrated provision , can be developed . |
| 20 | That means looking to the mainstream history of the discipline , rather than to current alternatives , which are at present partial and incipient . |
| 21 | In this way , many investment projects which enterprises are at present unwilling to undertake could be made attractive : the cost of capital would fall while the prospective returns rise . |
| 22 | The majority of our visitors are at present local ie Edinburgh and Lothians ( 63% ) . |
| 23 | Of course there is no possible denying our need for people so educated that they may fill the jobs that are at present unfilled , or offered to people from other countries , because of our own shortage of skilled and competent technologists . |
| 24 | Gradually the places in the year book which are at present unfamiliar to me will acquire a flesh and blood reality . |
| 25 | It would also need to try to provide wider privileges than are at present open to Members of the University Convocation . |
| 26 | The Zoffany was offered to the Tate , who want it but all of whose energies are at present devoted to acquiring another work by Zoffany , the Willoughby de Broke ‘ Family at Breakfast ’ . |
| 27 | SIR — Details of the mysterious respiratory illness mentioned by Nelson ( June 12 , p 1526 ) among Navajo Indians are at present sparse , but the symptoms are reminiscent of those described early in the course of an ‘ acute nephritis ’ which occurred with trench warfare in the First World War . |
| 28 | The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training . |
| 29 | It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions . |
| 30 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |