Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 7 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Potentially suitable suppliers are approached at this stage with an invitation to be considered for a supply relationship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 12 | No more than 20 accidents have been reported at any junction on the route , so your estimates should not exceed this figure . ’ |
| 13 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 14 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 15 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 18 | In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 21 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 22 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 23 | Content and methodology are closely linked and both are decided at this stage in the planning . |
| 24 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 25 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 26 | Many a harassed fixture secretary has been helped at short notice over the past nine years ! |
| 27 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family . |
| 30 | 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 . |