Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 2 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 3 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 4 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 5 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 6 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 7 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 8 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 9 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 10 | Perhaps it may even spur them to have a rethink ( miracles have been known to happen at this time of year ) and remove the threat of closure not just from St Bart 's but many other wonderful facilities up and down the country . |
| 11 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 12 | Each business area now has its own quality improvement manager , a Quality Strategy Group has been appointged to look at long-term policy making , and corrective action teams are busily at work . |
| 13 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 14 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 15 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 16 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 17 | Although short sticks can be used to jab at close range , longer sticks and chains become almost useless when there is no room to swing them in , or against a very close opponent . |
| 18 | ‘ Saxon and Norman debris and post-holes must be preserved hidden at all costs ’ stated the developer … doubtless with a correct note of scorn in his voice . |
| 19 | In this chapter we have been concerned with interpreting patterns of variation in speech communities with reference to the norms that can be shown to exist at varying levels of abstraction and generality . |
| 20 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 21 | ( ii ) Pupils should be enabled to compose at greater length than they can manage to write down by themselves , by : • dictating to their teacher or another adult , into a tape recorder ; or • working with other children ; or • using a word processor . |
| 22 | Timed tickets in operation : visitors will be asked to wait at busy periods . |
| 23 | Families and friends should be encouraged to visit at any time . |
| 24 | In March 1991 , although Aquino confirmed that Imelda Marcos continued to be banned from the country , she suggested that she would be allowed to return at some point in order to face corruption charges . |
| 25 | The hands should be kept moving at all times , not held in a perfect , but rigid , high-guard defence . |
| 26 | The broker ( through whom the approach would normally be made ) must be kept informed at each stage of the process . |
| 27 | Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times . |
| 28 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 29 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 30 | In considering the issue of entitlement to access , my college would be required to look at two groups of learners hitherto excluded — students with profound or multiple disabilities and students with challenging behaviour . |