Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 4 | Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration , drying , milling and packing . |
| 5 | In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature . |
| 6 | Much of the groundwork to date on E-mail and Broadcast — a handy message service — has been carried out at little cost . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the basic form ( shown in rows ( b ) and ( c ) of Figure 2.2 ) , zeros are shifted in at one end while bits are lost at the other ; in the second form ( called rotate or circular shift ) bits shifted out of one end of the pattern are shifted in at the other . |
| 10 | ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time . |
| 11 | The car seemed to have been driven directly at that cordon , where it had exploded . |
| 12 | The policy implications which I have drawn from the analyses mentioned above have been set out at greater length elsewhere ( Joshi , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 14 | Do-it-yourself practice compares the visible differences in sentences which are spoken naturally at normal speech but not exaggerated . |
| 15 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |
| 16 | Terminals need to be tight if good contact is to be maintained , abut if they are very tight they may distort or even break if they are pulled up at one end to remove them . |
| 17 | 30 Rd6||c5||31 Rf3||Ra7|| 32 Re6+||Kf7||33 Re7+||Kg8|| 34 Rg3||Resigns Mate by Bh6+ can be delayed only at ruinous cost . |
| 18 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 19 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 20 | The noise of the crowd surrounding it could be heard even at this distance . |
| 21 | Their noise could be heard even at this distance , and a hint of the smell drifted down the wind . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 24 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection , and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost . |
| 27 | This will be carried out at primary storage speeds , but will still take time , often due to lost device revolutions . |
| 28 | The National Trust and the Trustees of Waddesdon Manor had come to the decision that it would be in the best interest of the house for as much work as possible to be carried out at one time , and the range of the repairs is such that the house can not be reopened until April 1993 . |
| 29 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 30 | With the insertion of implants it could be carried out at any age , but the sensible option would be prophylactic mastectomy either at the completion of her family or at the menopause . ’ |