Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 5 | Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre . |
| 6 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 7 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 8 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 11 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 12 | Content and methodology are closely linked and both are decided at this stage in the planning . |
| 13 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 14 | There are several examples in the book where still images are used at key moments in the drama as part of the dramatic fiction , notably " The Giant Awakes " ( Chapter 5 ) , where the images are used as photographic evidence . |
| 15 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 16 | The group 's properties in the UK were valued on 31st March 1991 at open market value and are shown at that value in the balance sheet . |
| 17 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 18 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 19 | Those who make decisions which affect the use of manpower are found at all levels in the service . |
| 20 | It is well known that Roman remains are found at considerable depth in the lower Thames Valley and that the " Roman snail " they introduced to Britain is found far down in hill wash and similar deposits . |
| 21 | Lenses of Pb-Zn sulphides with up to 10 per cent Pb +&plus Zn have been found at several localities in the Dalradian , and other areas of barium-enriched sediments also occur ( Coats and others , 1984a ) . |
| 22 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 23 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 24 | Some simple measures of index effectiveness are introduced at this point in order to approach different indexing methods critically . |
| 25 | They earn interest in dinars , calculated at the current exchange rate , and the principal can normally be withdrawn at any time in the given foreign currency . |
| 26 | Housing requirements may alter as families move through life , and different types of financial commitments may be undertaken at different points in the life-cycle . |
| 27 | Interest , if given under the section , may be calculated at different rates in respect of different periods ( s 69(5) ) . |
| 28 | Bear in mind that where a procedure is approved , the published instructions include the minimum heights to be flown at successive stages in the approach and a final obstacle clearance limit or minimum descent height recommended . |
| 29 | Aware of the strength of public opinion , Mrs Aquino ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half mast in a conciliatory gesture . |
| 30 | Readers will also be stopped at different points in the sentence and asked to identify words seen earlier . |