Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — It was with considerable alarm that I read ( article , April 6 ) that William Kent furniture at Houghton may be sold at auction because the many items ‘ are additional to those on view ’ and that their loss ‘ would not be evident ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite frankly , whoever invented suspenders should be shot at dawn ! |
| 3 | Michael presented annual statistics of infant baptisms in the Deanery ( nearly 200 ) and suggested ways in which programmes should be initiated at parish level . |
| 4 | Such programmes should be directed at lifestyle rather than disease detection , and targeted at improving the health of women of all ages . |
| 5 | The various outputs may be added at market prices , or the effect of subsidies and taxes on expenditure may be excluded to arrive at GNP at factor cost . |
| 6 | Fast … stock should be stored at ground level . |
| 7 | For example , fire risk clients could be sustained at home if they had 24-hour-a-day surveillance . |
| 8 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 9 | In 1004 Henry II ordered a halt in his campaign in Italy so that no Christian blood would be shed at Easter . |
| 10 | Is he aware that renationalising water would cost the taxpayer £8 billion and that the whole of this investment programme would be put at risk ? |
| 11 | That way Eleanor would be kept at bay and , after all , the chance of anyone else looking him up was extremely remote . |
| 12 | Provide lighting if the steps will be used at night . |
| 13 | This stock will be redeemed at par on 19 May 1999 . |
| 14 | These images can be re-scaled at will and always print out at the resolution of the printer rather than the computer 's display . |
| 15 | Velvet can be kept at bay by good husbandry . |
| 16 | Where an office-holder can be removed at pleasure , as opposed to for cause , the same connection is forged between the absence of substantive rights and the lack of procedural protection ; the latter is treated as a natural corollary of the former . |
| 17 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 18 | The image of Jesus as a ‘ poor carpenter ’ from Nazareth can be challenged at length . |
| 19 | Facilities include 3 tennis courts ( payable locally ) , sunbathing lawns and a large terrace where light meals or snacks can be taken at lunchtime . |
| 20 | Mice may be fostered at birth or at any time prior to weaning . |
| 21 | It is clearly inappropriate to eat chocolate first thing , therefore each window should be opened at bedtime before the children brush their teeth . |
| 22 | As I look back on what happened this morning and this evening , er er nothing I 've er suggests to me that any one sector should be discounted at present and I think er on the basis of what I 've heard at the moment , erm all the sectors that er that we 've discussed today , er are still in the frame . |
| 23 | Ideally , depreciation should be measured at market value ( i.e. as the difference between the current second-hand market value of the asset and its second-hand market value in the previous year ) . |
| 24 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 25 | A farrier could be heard at work in an empty box on the north side and the smell of singeing hoof wafted across the yard . |
| 26 | The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception . |
| 27 | Second , and perhaps in conjunction with the above , vouchers would be distributed at club and district games . |
| 28 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 29 | Moreover , Soviet oil deliveries would be charged at world prices rather than the current pricing system based on a five-year rolling average . |
| 30 | The $50m issue will be redeemed at par , the $28m and $37m issues at a price equal to 110.50% of the principal plus accrued interest . |