Example sentences of "be [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible at certain times of the day to observe roe deer in adjoining fields . |
| 2 | Passenger boarding and alighting will not be possible at Far Stanley as is the case currently at Gretton . |
| 3 | Dr Tony Cox , programme director for atmospheric sciences at the Natural Environment Research Council , said that the warming effect of CO2 and CFCs in the lower atmosphere will be greatest at low latitudes , while the cooling caused by ozone depletion is strongest at the poles . |
| 4 | Training could easily be video-based at low cost also . |
| 5 | The second is that it can obviously vary from very poor to very good , and an individual 's welfare will be different at different times . |
| 6 | And when again Millie stood close by her side she looked down on her and said , ‘ Never try to be funny at other people 's expense . |
| 7 | They will be skilful at separating ‘ noise ’ from ‘ signal ’ . |
| 8 | The record design indicates that , as in other databases in this school , date is the only publication detail felt to be appropriate at S1/S2 stage . |
| 9 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 10 | Ratios of still births to live births tend to be larger at high orders than at second order but , in developed countries , particularly , the ratios at sixth , but mainly seventh and higher birth orders were two to three times that among first order births . |
| 11 | It can be seen that in the event of specific goods perishing , the contract may be avoided by section 7 but if in any other case the contract becomes impossible or illegal to perform , it will be frustrated at common law . |
| 12 | Nevertheless such a contract may be frustrated at common law . |
| 13 | However , a contract for the sale of unascertained goods can be frustrated at common law if it subsequently becomes impossible to perform because of an unexpected turn of events , as in Howell v. Coupland . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | Since vitamin E is fat soluble , this shortcoming in turn prevents it from entering the circulation , even though it may be present at normal levels in the gut . |
| 16 | An unwanted component can sometimes be present at long intervals , and this can be very troublesome . |
| 17 | CREB and ATF1 appear to be present at similar levels in immunoprecipitates obtained with the CREB antibody ( lane 2 ) suggesting that most of the CREB is in the form of a heterodimer with ATF1 . |
| 18 | The same RNA samples from several cell lines were probed for ATF1 RNA , β2-microglobulin RNA ( as a monitor of differentiation ( 46 ) ) and CREB RNA which has previously been shown to be present at similar levels in UF9 and DF9 cells ( 47 ) . |
| 19 | Gas chromatography of MUP suggests that the principal component bound by MUP in vivo is 2- ( sec- butyl ) thiazoline ( Fig. 3 ) , although this may represent the major species of several present in the crystal , MUP has been shown to bind at least three different ligands in vivo and some or all of these may also be present at low occupancy . |
| 20 | The requirement was for vessels to operate habitually from a national port ( p. 222 , para. 28 ) and , hence , for vessels to be present at national ports with a certain frequency ( p. 224 , para. 40 ) . |
| 21 | We expect sponsored MPs to be present at important votes , and particularly on these occasions when our members are likely to be infect affected . |
| 22 | David Lawrence is certainly having a lot of work to do in the field as well as bowl , runs a long way , that 's to be better at deep back with square leg , in place of Philip DeFreitas and let Daffy do some running about , he 's just had a drink there . |
| 23 | However , we are equally guilty at times of thinking ourselves to be better at certain pursuits than we have cause to feel . |
| 24 | To return to our primeval replicators , while most miscopyings probably resulted in diminished copying effectiveness , or total loss of the self-copying property , a few might actually have turned out to be better at self-replication than the parent replicator that gave rise to them . |
| 25 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 26 | Their initial closure decision was made on three grounds , according to the minutes : the expected financial savings of about £3,000 ; consideration of the good condition and underused capacity of the school building at Green Haven , as opposed to the poor condition of the older building at Village ( whose toilet facilities were located in an out-building at the school ) ; and the Director 's feeling that the ‘ educational situation ’ would be better at Green Haven . |
| 27 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 28 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 29 | It was also signed by two captains , Javier Licona and Jesus George Balma , known to be unhappy at recent promotions of majors loyal to the general , at the expense of officers considered of questionable loyalty . |
| 30 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |