Example sentences of "be [verb] at [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 2 | These explanations are treated at length in the work of Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) and Fothergill , Kitson and Monk ( 1985 ) . |
| 3 | N B N B when you see the moon you are looking at light from the sun reflected from the moon circles . |
| 4 | Once the court papers have been served on the debtor and an enquiry has been made at court regarding the debtor 's intentions , the result of those enquiries is input to the computer and the appropriate papers for obtaining Decree are produced . |
| 5 | Roger O'Doherty , secretary of Age Concern in Derry , said : ‘ We wish it to be known that only evening activities are curtailed at present in the Whyte House . |
| 6 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
| 7 | erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education . |
| 8 | Radioactive waste had been disposed at sea by the Northern and Pacific Navies and the Murmansk merchant fleet . |
| 9 | Its influence can also be seen at work within the North where sub-regional studies have shown that many medium-sized places and more rural areas fared relatively well between 1971 and 1981 despite the general appearance of economic malaise conveyed by the regional-level statistics ( Breheny , Hall and Hart , 1987 ; Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ; Townsend , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | This can be seen at work in the House of Lords decision in Overend & Gurney Co v Gibb , just mentioned . |
| 11 | Margaret agreed to be seen at home by the therapist initially for three sessions , to help her express her feelings of grief about the loss of her husband , and to explore ways of coping with her practical problems . |
| 12 | Both tables show control sample clients doing better in home care : spending less time altogether in an institution , and being more likely to be living at home at the end of the two time periods . |
| 13 | We sent the lambs to be sold at auction in the autumn . |
| 14 | We should like to call the attention of your readers , if we may , to the Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea in the Book of Common Prayer — still the standard authorised prayer book for the Church of England , which include prayers before or during a storm and thanksgiving for safety and deliverance , as well as the very beautiful collect which begins ‘ Prevent us , O Lord , in all our doings ’ , in which the word ‘ prevent ’ is used in its original sense of ‘ go before us ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , the ability of workers to work ( labour-power ) itself is a marketable commodity , bought for the least cost to be used at will by the capitalist . |
| 16 | Few doctors would be needed at night by the family health services authority , and only a small proportion ( less than 1% ) of all patients ' contacts with general practitioners would be affected . |
| 17 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 18 | It could be argued that in such instances an unlearnt program could still be detected at work behind the scenes since the general category of food , and its effectiveness as a reward , was in some sense built in . |
| 19 | Some of these services might come from the LEA 's administrative budget or its share of the General Schools ' Budget : others could be provided at cost to the users . |
| 20 | He is insistent on this : " it is safe to observe , indeed to stress , the following : between 1750 and 1850 almost all employed people , particularly in towns , were to be found at work between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. , Tuesday to Saturday " . |
| 21 | No-one is more aware of the weaknesses in the current XV than the Scotland utility back who will be playing at centre for the A XV this weekend , and he revealed that the club ‘ already had some irons in the fire ’ as regards to one or two new faces for next season . |
| 22 | Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section . |
| 23 | There has to be the possibility that the politics can be put at risk by the aesthetics , or the relationship as well as each of its components will be inert . |
| 24 | The very landscape that creates the market for tourism and/or recreation may itself be put at risk in the absence of careful management . |
| 25 | They fed on the flying fish thrown up by pirate ships and whalers — then perched on the rigging , only to be removed at leisure for the cooking pot ! |
| 26 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 27 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 28 | As the present case shows , however , there are other matters to be considered , the most important of which is proof : how is the identity of the accused to be established at trial in the absence of any out-of-court identification ? |
| 29 | We discovered that a paella needed to be ordered at lunchtime for the evening , and went back to eat it while watching boats come back in the gathering gloom . |
| 30 | The personal figure of coercion , such as the bailiff , may be held at bay through the provision of money , which allows for exchange outside of the nexus of personal social relations . |