Example sentences of "be at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The properties that we 're building will be available er , the initial lettings a and sales will be one hundred percent er , to council nominees subsequent lettings and nominations will be at seventy one percent which is the maximum level that we can agree under the housing corporation rules . |
| 2 | At the top , leaders Whitby expect to be at virtual full strength for their game at Tow Law , who will be without Darren Darwen and Tony Higgs . |
| 3 | There are many sincere souls who find the idea of God becoming a human to be at best implausible , and at worst blasphemous . |
| 4 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 5 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 6 | Even if all these animals were buried on-farm , the long term environmental consequences would be at best uncertain " . |
| 7 | In these dialect-divergent studies ( J. Milroy , 1981 ; Johnston , 1983 ; Newbrook , 1986 ) , however , it is the linguistic analysis that is the greatest immediate challenge facing the investigator : if we do not investigate the internal linguistic structure of the speech community itself , the sociolinguistic interpretation of the data will be at best superficial , and , at worst , wrong . |
| 8 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 9 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 10 | And the suggestion was that it should be at nine thirty , and not ten thirty . |
| 11 | In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful . |
| 12 | The other lesson where I ‘ doubled-up ’ was observed by the Director of Studies , whose presence did not seem to be at all intrusive and distorting in effect . |
| 13 | The transfer price must be equal to the market price if it is to be at all relevant . |
| 14 | ‘ However , in deference to public opinion , the developers have decided to see if it would be at all possible to have the building renovated and brought back to its former glory . |
| 15 | I would n't be at all impressed with it . |
| 16 | I do n't think your mother and father would be at all keen on the idea . ’ |
| 17 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 18 | This was not going to be at all easy . |
| 19 | However , given the weakness of France 's position since 1815 , the task was not going to be at all easy . |
| 20 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 21 | If we are to be at all logical in our approach to contemporary ethics , we must accept this much . |
| 22 | Not that it would be at all necessary , she reassured herself as she felt a sudden burst of fright . |
| 23 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 24 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 25 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 26 | She could n't be at all sure that giving in to such an impulse would have the desired effect . |
| 27 | It is n't designed for high volume output , but I would n't be at all upset to have one adorning my desk . |
| 28 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 29 | Although the Committee hoped that the broadcasters would cover committee work , there was no expectation that this would be at all extensive , and therefore minimum effort and expense appeared reasonable ; in particular , the Committee did not recommend the installation of remote-controlled cameras . |
| 30 | ‘ British Airways will not be at all pleased with me. ’ |