Example sentences of "[verb] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some .
2 To gain these advantages , a fresh look will need to be taken at all our storage risks to ensure that the system does give the required performance .
3 That may be true , and it might affect the balance of advantage and disadvantage , but it does not need to be resolved at this stage .
4 Tony Benn is clearly not able to resolve the position of the monarchy within our system but he highlights a problem that may need to be confronted at some point in the future .
5 So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred .
6 to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and
7 they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all .
8 However tenuous it may have become , once a marriage is under threat it can suddenly turn into a territory which has to be defended at all costs , like the Falklands .
9 The ‘ good loser syndrome ’ has to be avoided at all costs .
10 If , as this example suggests , partial word strings of more than two words are necessary to guarantee selection of the correct word-string , then the number of alternative partial word strings that has to be considered at any one time will increase correspondingly , particularly when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input .
11 Treatment has to be directed at this state of mind as much as to restoring body weight .
12 It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father .
13 ‘ A place to be avoided at all costs , ’ he agreed .
14 The apparent paradox of Nizan 's ideological/psychological mentality needs to be scrutinised at this juncture since it is clear that after 1935 his intellectual itinerary became far more complex , shaped as it was by countless pressures arising not only from a new party strategy but also from a deepening international political crisis .
15 This challenge needs to be noted at this juncture since the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky on the one hand , and Bukharin on the other , reflects a fundamental tension in Nizan 's own literary theory and practice .
16 One further point which needs to be made at this stage concerns the question of ideology , class conflict , and class consciousness .
17 A specifically religious term , " sacramental " , probably needs to be introduced at this point .
18 What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties .
19 What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production .
20 It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all .
21 The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down .
22 ‘ You do not appear to be foxed at all , ’ she explained .
23 The one oddity of the cut is the excessive width of the lower leg — in fact the trousers do n't appear to be tapered at all .
24 Today , service , seniority , and experience do not appear to be considered at all , your religion or creed appear to be an important factor in regulating your progress in the Service … ’
25 Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all .
26 The Conservative Election victory in 1970 had removed , for the time being at least , the prospect of the School 's being compelled to join the Independent sector , and allowed thought to be given at some length as to what Independence might entail .
27 ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’
28 He 's talking about amniocentesis as well , which should be done next week if it 's going to be done at all . ’
29 There is also the pressure of time , when he knows there is a long list of cases still waiting to be tried at that particular circuit .
30 Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing .
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