Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pottery plaque has been placed at the entrance and her picture on the wall in the vestibule . |
| 2 | ‘ Insufficient consideration had been given at the design and certification stage to the stress distribution in the horizontal stabiliser spar structure following a top chord failure in the region outboard of the closure rib … ’ |
| 3 | How towers are designed at the top and bottom is crucial , what goes on in between is largely irrelevant . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Initially mutual recognition has been targeted at the professions and holders of higher level qualifications . |
| 8 | Phyllis , this year , tell me , tell me , tell me how many crimes have been committed at the Park and Rides ? |
| 9 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 10 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 11 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 12 | Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT . |
| 13 | The fringes are continuations of the warp strands , and are secured at the top and bottom of the rug to both hold the weft strands in place and add the final decorative touch to the rug . |
| 14 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 15 | I think we are looking at the advantages and disadvantages of erm various types of problems that might occur . |
| 16 | Shirley ( 4.6 ) and Trevor ( 4.8 ) are looking at the shells and their teacher , noticing their interest in the different kinds , joins with them to initiate a ‘ spontaneous ’ sorting activity . |
| 17 | We are looking at the pension and life assurance scheme . ’ |
| 18 | Well , we are looking at the situation and I think that 's all we can say about that . |
| 19 | We are looking at the matter and it is currently being considered by the Department . |
| 20 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 21 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 22 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 23 | Scurr is also investigating the use of laporoscopy , where two tiny holes are made at the navel and the hernia repaired from inside . |
| 24 | In the latter two countries there are markedly decentralised union-management structures and a large proportion of collective agreements are made at the enterprise or workplace levels . |
| 25 | He 's got a , they 're all talking about me , he says they 're listening at the walls or standing in the clossies |
| 26 | Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door . |
| 27 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 28 | We 're looking at the policies and procedures adopted by the local authority because decisions about those individual children are entrusted to the High Court , the family division . |
| 29 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 30 | They 're not swimming around , yeah they 're staying at the top as well are n't they ? |