Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the duly authorised activities of the Simonova were going to be undertaken at a respectable distance . |
| 2 | Parental responsibility appears here in the form of a duty to ensure that the child is examined ; there is an offence on failing without reasonable cause to comply with requirements of a notice requiting the child to be examined at a stipulated place and time . |
| 3 | This law enables the volume of a gas to be calculated at a specific temperature and pressure so long as the volume of the gas is known at another temperature and pressure . |
| 4 | These expressions do not mean that the parties have the right to be heard at a formal hearing : what they convey is that the parties can state their case in writing . |
| 5 | Hundreds arrived to be registered at a special inquiry centre in St Saviour 's church , which will be open from 10am to 10pm until tomorrow night . |
| 6 | Students may be placed at a particular point in the range of modules depending on their competence profile . |
| 7 | Or the whole unit can be checked at a single tour , with a limit of 2,000 stock codes on the Psion . |
| 8 | Four times as many children with cancer will now be treated at a new centre , which will also help with vital research . |
| 9 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 10 | — Two former chairmen of Spennymoor WMC will be honoured at a special presentation evening in the club on Saturday June 21 . |
| 11 | The compensation should be arranged at a European level , because sediment washed from the UK 's east coast can end up strengthening natural sea defences in Belgium , the Netherlands and Germany . |
| 12 | It would seem an appropriate forum in which the issue of mountain bikes could be considered at a strategic policy level . |
| 13 | Using the special version of the DIM statement to reserve an area of memory is the simplest way for short programs which do not have to be located at a particular memory address . |
| 14 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 15 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 16 | Further venues/details can be added at a future date . |
| 17 | A bank can not predict which of its customers wish to withdraw or deposit money on any given day ; a travel firm can not control which of its package tours will be booked at a particular time . |
| 18 | The new training scheme will be targeted at a limited number of high-calibre graduates . |
| 19 | An increase in earnings will lead to a reduction in both benefit and child support and so lone mothers will tend to be trapped at a low level of income . |
| 20 | When the change in angle is made smoothly , the glider will be climbing at a safe angle and will be able to recover if there is a launch failure at any point . |
| 21 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |
| 22 | They are having to be repaired at a total cost of some £20 million . |
| 23 | Could fragrance be vibrating at a similar frequency to that of spirit ? |
| 24 | In other parts , a sea wall would be built at a suitable inlet to enclose a mill-pond . |
| 25 | The houses were to be built at a pre-arranged cost and the architectural detail of each was to be carefully considered . |
| 26 | The presentation would be made at a Divisional Meeting in due course . |
| 27 | Sheer cliffs , 300–400 feet high , defend the island , relenting only where a breach permits landings to be made at a small beach ; nearby an ancient graveyard and ruined crofts are relics of a former occupation . |
| 28 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 29 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 30 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |