Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 2 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 3 | It is a trend which has been noted at other fairs . |
| 4 | It was a decision taken in haste , which has been repented at considerable leisure . |
| 5 | IMPROVING communications is the aim of a new Quality Circle which has been introduced at Imperial Pottery . |
| 6 | It is the production version of the PWS 4000 porting platform which has been shown at all the major computer exhibitions since Comdex/Fall last October ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 7 | Roy Hattersley , deputy party leader , was blamed for the change in policy which has been approved at three previous conferences . |
| 8 | Anti-realism is the theory of understanding which has been mentioned at various points in this chapter . |
| 9 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 10 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 11 | The shelves in the living room of Chris Cobley 's London home are filled with certificates and trophies , including numerous ‘ firsts ’ , which have been awarded at local shows for the high standard of his fish . |
| 12 | This ignores repeated steps which have been taken at several levels of management to reduce uncertainty . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind these considerations , and some of the criticisms which have been levelled at existing gradation schemes , a ladder of offences could possibly be constructed as follows , to deal with non-consensual conduct presently covered by rape , indecent assault and buggery . |
| 14 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 15 | ‘ The list includes special deals which have been negotiated at specific hotels as well as agreements with two major chains , ’ said . |
| 16 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
| 17 | She will be opposed by Kenbu , who has been backed at long odds for the 1,000 Guineas and is a stablemate of the outstanding Arazi . |
| 18 | Stablemate Desert Zone — who has been backed at long odds for the Ever Ready Derby — runs today at Brighton but Cole 's main hope , Great Palm , is not due to reappear until the Dante Stakes next month . |
| 19 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 20 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 21 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 22 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 23 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 24 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 25 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 26 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 27 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 28 | Three of the drivers concerned had argued that they had been unfairly selected for redundancy because there were drivers with less service who had been retained at other quarries . |
| 29 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 30 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |