Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 2 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 3 | Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 4 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 5 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 6 | There are a number of amendments to Schedule 5 which are directed at the same broad objective though they go somewhat further than the suggestions I have described . |
| 7 | As much as five mitochondrial introns are known today which are inserted at the same position as intron 1 in P.wickerhamii . |
| 8 | In spite of the shift to the political right there remains widespread support for state-funded programmes in education and health and for those which are targeted at the poor and the old . |
| 9 | In applying the requirements of the [ draft ] FRS capital instruments which are issued at the same time in a composite transaction should be considered together . |
| 10 | However , big is not always beautiful , and often having two smaller models which are used at the real point of use in a catering establishment can give greater flexibility and be more cost-effective . |
| 11 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 12 | Businessmen were further upset by a series of tax proposals , commonly known as the " soak the rich taxes " , which were aimed at the wealthy and large business corporations . |
| 13 | Projecting from the handle is an iron bar , somewhat twisted and corroded , which is curved at the broken end to form part of a semicircle . |
| 14 | Indeed , my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , in a speech right out of the defeatist book which is kept at the Foreign Office , seemed to declare that a nation with its own currency could not survive in the days of the ecu . |
| 15 | The victim is usually speared with the barbed teeth in the proboscis and quickly killed by the venom which is injected at the same time . |
| 16 | It simulates the bit of the search space which is rooted at the current state , and plans an acceptable next move . |
| 17 | The new range , which is targeted at the traditional scientific and technical parallel computing markets , will comprise five model types , covering a performance range from 800 MIPS to over 400,000 MIPS . |
| 18 | The new range , which is targeted at the traditional scientific and technical parallel computing markets , will comprise five model types , covering a performance range from 800 MIPS to over 400,000 MIPS . |
| 19 | The Guidelines issued to schools make reference to the SCOTVEC Module ( ‘ The Road User ’ which is targeted at the 16–18 year old age group . |
| 20 | This month Cellnet launched its Lifetime tariff system which is aimed at the light user — the lone woman motorist or people who only make the occasional vital call . |
| 21 | She has given $7,000 ( £4,400 ) towards the cost of a new fire engine , which is housed at the Old Saybrook Fire Station just two miles away from her home in Fenwick off the shore of the Long Island Sound . |
| 22 | This led to Meredith posing for the face of the dead poet , Thomas Chatterton [ q.v. ] , in Wallis 's painting ‘ Chatterton ’ ( Tate Gallery ) which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856 . |
| 23 | The artist Trevor Stubley at work on a portrait of Hannah which was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery |
| 24 | The Wimbledon defender will also request a cut in a six-month playing ban , suspended for three years , which was imposed at the same time . |
| 25 | One patient also had a distal gastric cancer which was resected at the same time as the colonic primary . |
| 26 | The preliminary list which was compiled at the last sub-stage must be developed . |
| 27 | In 1856 he established a business in Manchester as an electric-telegraph and lightning-conductor engineer , and spent some years on the development of a magneto-electric alphabetic telegraph , which was demonstrated at the international exhibition in London in 1862 . |
| 28 | Within this poem he clearly attempts to square on the one hand the darker representations of his sleep with his pansocratic visions , on the other hand , Pains of Sleep which was published at the same time as Kubla Khan illuminates the ancestral voices prophesying war . |
| 29 | At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant . |
| 30 | Lesbian and gay bitterness was the more acute for a sense of betrayal , given the trail-blazing work of the Labour Greater London Council ( GLC ) , subsequent lesbian and gay equality policies by a number of Labour local authorities , and the breakthroughs achieved by the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights — notably the 1985 Labour Annual Conference policy which was reaffirmed at the 1986 Annual Conference by a 79 per cent majority . |