Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 2 | He dozed but woke with a start , dreaming that the Hell-hounds he had just visited were snuffling at the door , but it was only Ranulf dragging a stool across the dusty rushes . |
| 3 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 4 | Others were part of basic research on living tissue , and their benefits could not have been realised at the time . |
| 5 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 6 | In a later case in which service had been attempted in Belgium , the Belgian Central Authority certified that service had proved impossible , the defendant not having been found at the address given . |
| 7 | The highest price tag was £75,000 for an Elizabeth Frink horse , rumoured already to have been sold at the time of going to press . |
| 8 | The large steersman 's oar , which must always have been located at the stern , is the only clear indication of the vessel 's orientation . |
| 9 | The figure summarises information on timing of father 's employment in the nuclear industry and radiation exposure , in relation to the birth of his child , for the seven fathers ( four cases and three controls , of whom three and two respectively had been employed at the atomic weapons establishments in the area ) who were issued with dosimeters . |
| 10 | What we can more profitably do is look at the way speakers have used code switches in the past , in an effort to understand their motivations . |
| 11 | Change in firm 's circumstances Where the circumstances of the firm have changed in some material respect which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the date of the agreement . |
| 12 | The barrage initially had been aimed at the civilians but Maj Waters said as it got closer to the convoy , two trucks had been damaged . |
| 13 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 14 | Philip Leapor may therefore have been orphaned at the age of eight . |
| 15 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 16 | There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction . |
| 17 | The goods must actually have been stolen at the time of the offence . |