Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 3 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 4 | Access into the high rack area is normally restricted to the high lift trucks and all other personnel are excluded — except for occasional maintenance and monitoring checks when moveable barriers are erected at each end of the aisle to prevent such entry . |
| 5 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 6 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 7 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 8 | It is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day . |
| 9 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 10 | Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre . |
| 11 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 12 | Potentially suitable suppliers are approached at this stage with an invitation to be considered for a supply relationship . |
| 13 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 14 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 15 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
| 16 | Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms . |
| 17 | No more than 20 accidents have been reported at any junction on the route , so your estimates should not exceed this figure . ’ |
| 18 | Traditionally , the holes have been spaced at regular intervals along the tube — but Western Electric says it has discovered that this is not the ideal approach . |
| 19 | Even if introns from different species are located at identical sites within genes , there may or may not be an intronic ORF present . |
| 20 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 21 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 22 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 23 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 24 | In case of trouble when handling prisoners , alarms are positioned at strategic points around the prison . |
| 25 | It has two vertical rows of three teeth and these are positioned at right angles to the shank , to give maximum leverage in use . |
| 26 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |
| 27 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 28 | In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case . |
| 29 | Taxes are collected at three levels of government in Yugoslavia : by the federal government , by the governments of the republics and provinces , and by the communes , including some multi-commune cities . |
| 30 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |