Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 11 | Scurr is also investigating the use of laporoscopy , where two tiny holes are made at the navel and the hernia repaired from inside . |
| 12 | Through volunteer labour , donations , Habitat builds and renovates 8,000 homes a year , which are sold at no profit and with no interest mortgages . |
| 13 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 14 | His breathtaking , black and white exhibition of sharks , sealions and pelicans has recently been shown at the Fouts and Fouler Gallery in London , the pictures of which he is understandably most proud . |
| 15 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 16 | Only one or two young are born at a time and they are transported in an unusual manner by the mother — by hanging on to her greatly elongated teats . |
| 17 | Over £m has already been raised at the hospital and the £500 collected by staff members Cath Newell , Ellen Harrison , Cliff Kunne and Malcolm Morris will take the appeal a little bit nearer to its £1.5m target . |
| 18 | It deals with major negotiating items that have not been settled at the RSJC and in recent years has been the forum in which the unions present their annual pay claims . |
| 19 | His arms had been amputated at the elbow and his legs at the knees . |
| 20 | Every such notice shall state the name and address of each Purchaser and the number of Shares agreed to be purchased by him , and the purchase shall be completed at a place and time to be appointed by the Directors . |
| 21 | Every such notice shall state the name and address of each Purchaser and the number of Shares agreed to be purchased by him , and the purchase shall be completed at a place and time to be appointed by the Directors . |
| 22 | At the ‘ micro ’ level information will be gathered at the household and plot level about land values and land price changes , together with an evaluation of population turnover . |
| 23 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 24 | To make a room look wider , long horizontal bands of mirror can be placed at the top and bottom of walls , or vertical floor to ceiling panels can be added to walls at right angles to a window . |
| 25 | The sessions can be arranged at a time and place suitable to your drivers . |
| 26 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 27 | Order 20 , r 12A provides as follows : ( 1 ) Subject to paragraph ( 2 ) , at any stage in an action or matter the court may , if it thinks fit for the purpose of disposing fairly and expeditiously of the action or matter and saving costs , direct any party to serve on the other parties , on such terms as the court shall think just , written statements of the oral evidence which the party intends to lead on any issues of fact to be decided at the trial and RSC Ord 38 , r 2A shall apply to a direction under this rule . |
| 28 | In Great Britain important silver bearing his mark may be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum , the Ashmolean Museum , and the Mansion House . |
| 29 | much of the analysis can be done at the microscope and cut-out photographs need only be used to detect subtle changes . |
| 30 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |