BE + at + NOUN + to INFINITIVE – English Grammar Profiler

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_VB _XX at _NN _TO

1 ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO 260
2 ‘M NOT AT LIBERTY TO 220

Who‘s your client?
I‘m not at liberty to say.

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3 AM NOT AT LIBERTY TO 217 4 IS NOT AT LIBERTY TO 149 5 WAS NOT AT LIBERTY TO 118 6 ‘RE NOT AT LIBERTY TO 40 7 ‘M NOT AT HOME TO 39 8 WERE NOT AT LIBERTY TO 29 9 ARE NOT AT HOME TO 26

10 WAS N’T AT LIBERTY TO 25

_VB at _NN _TO

1 WAS AT PAINS TO 2167
2 BEEN AT PAINS TO 1590

The prosecution has been at pains to explain what has happened.

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3 IS AT PAINS TO 1177
4 ARE AT LIBERTY TO 1124

You are at liberty to speak.

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1 ARE AT LIBERTY TO APPROACH 61 2 ARE AT LIBERTY TO DO 60 3 ARE AT LIBERTY TO CHOOSE 47 4 ARE AT LIBERTY TO MAKE 43 5 ARE AT LIBERTY TO TAKE 33 6 ARE AT LIBERTY TO USE 31 7 ARE AT LIBERTY TO FILE 23 8 ARE AT LIBERTY TO SET 23 9 ARE AT LIBERTY TO APPLY 22

10 ARE AT LIBERTY TO LITIGATE 21

5 IS AT LIBERTY TO 1035 6 BE AT LIBERTY TO 969 7 WERE AT PAINS TO 527 8 ARE AT PAINS TO 422 9 WAS AT LIBERTY TO 393 10 WAS AT HAND TO 241 11 WERE AT LIBERTY TO 233 12 BE AT HOME TO 224 13 ARE AT WORK TO 181 14 ARE AT RISK TO 156 15 BE AT PAINS TO 133 16 WERE AT HAND TO 131 17 IS AT HAND TO 130 18 BE AT HAND TO 121 19 IS AT WORK TO 95 20 ARE AT HAND TO 90 21 BE AT RISK TO 87 22 BE AT RINGSIDE TO 78 23 ARE AT HOME TO 75 24 BE AT WORK TO 71 25 IS AT STAKE TO 66 26 WAS AT WORK TO 64

27 ‘S AT PAINS TO 64

This post could relate to no determiner before a wide range of nouns.  Some of these expressions do not require BE or an infinitive:

All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

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The success you craved was at hand.

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