Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 2 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 3 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 4 | By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential . |
| 5 | Our balance sheet is strong and we are looking carefully at further acquisitions in both the oil and non-oil sectors . |
| 6 | Mark Fisher , the UK Labour Party Shadow Minister for the Arts and Media , has already stated that they are looking independently at various ideas for funding living artists and admitted that they would be considered an exhibition royalty ‘ earlier and more enthusiastically ’ than other methods such as droit de suite ( qv ) . |
| 7 | The company 's plans indicate the way in which newspapers , having modernised printing methods , are looking closely at editorial costs . |
| 8 | The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season . |
| 9 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 10 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 11 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 12 | What is ‘ in the public interest ’ and what is ‘ against the public interest ’ ( there may , of course , be actions which fall into neither category ) has been interpreted differently at various times . |
| 13 | Since 1965 prospecting birds have also been noted regularly at other localities on the chalk and east of Hastings . |
| 14 | Elsewhere numbers are quite small , but Goldeneye are noted annually at several places along the coast , and on most important inland waters . |
| 15 | The car seemed to have been driven directly at that cordon , where it had exploded . |
| 16 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 17 | Do-it-yourself practice compares the visible differences in sentences which are spoken naturally at normal speech but not exaggerated . |
| 18 | They are doing so at differing speeds , faced by differing problems and with differing chances of success . |
| 19 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
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| 21 | There are some balloons available to be given away at suitable events ( not for sale ) — let me know if you are participating in any public event and would like some . |
| 22 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 23 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 24 | The noise of the crowd surrounding it could be heard even at this distance . |
| 25 | Their noise could be heard even at this distance , and a hint of the smell drifted down the wind . |
| 26 | And that er explosive charge could be heard sometimes at thirty miles away . |
| 27 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 28 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 29 | Various authors can be placed notionally at different points on the spectrum depending on how closely their accounts of law approach the ideal models of positivism or natural law . |
| 30 | The completed interview question forms together with answers to the individual questions arising from candidates ' application forms/ c.v.s can be perused afterwards at comparative leisure . |