Example sentences of "is [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 2 | Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable . |
| 3 | One victim is recovering at St Thomas 's after an eye operation , and another is in the Royal London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 4 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 5 | Welcome back : A young wild deer is recovering at an animal rescue centre after having a leg amputated . |
| 6 | John Patten -- the Education Secretary and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon -- is recovering at home after a week in hospital for tests on a viral infection . |
| 7 | Comedian Les Dawson ( above ) is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation . |
| 8 | On an international basis , the British rate is calculated at 10.2 per cent which is above the averages for the ‘ Major 7 ’ economies , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , and the European Community . |
| 9 | On the internal market , the price is calculated at a third to a half of the Western auction estimate price . |
| 10 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 11 | The other , d , is a distance from a node 's weights to an input instance , and is calculated at run time . |
| 12 | The total cost to the Government to date , excluding the contempt proceedings and officials ' time , is calculated at £2,221,503 . |
| 13 | One bird drifts overhead and I swear it is gazing at my quill-like yellow boat as I am gazing at its white tail . |
| 14 | ( He is gazing at his machine . |
| 15 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 16 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 17 | Fr Paul Addison will celebrate his Silver Jubilee as a priest this year and a celebratory Mass of thanksgiving is arranged at St Mary 's , Fulham Road on Saturday April 21st ( Easter Sunday ) . |
| 18 | This is arranged at … on … in the Headmaster' office . |
| 19 | The importance of grazing both cows and sheep over the same land ( either together or in succession ) , both for the good of the sward and the health of the livestock , is explained at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 20 | There is one large interesting watercolour with a background of the Langdales , a middle ground of Hornby Castle and a foreground of the lower falls at Rydal ; all this is explained at the foot of the picture . |
| 21 | However , the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 has been made under the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( The procedure for making these orders is explained at paragraph 16–40 below ) . |
| 22 | This important media privilege is explained at p276 . |
| 23 | The use of the Command Line Interpreter is explained at Appendix D to your Z88 manual and in the " Operating System Interface " section of this manual . |
| 24 | The problem is compounded at present by the bureaucracy of parole , which results in decisions being anything up to six or eight months late . |
| 25 | 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away . |
| 26 | Rail transport is placed at a disadvantage in Britain . |
| 27 | If he is moving to a wheelchair with a removable arm , it is placed at right angles to the bed , and his feet remain level with each other . |
| 28 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 29 | Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces . |
| 30 | Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass . |