Example sentences of "be [verb] at [noun] [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 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 3 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 4 | These explanations are treated at length in the work of Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) and Fothergill , Kitson and Monk ( 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly turquoise has frequently been excavated at sites on the Iranian plateau , notably at Hissar and Yahya . |
| 6 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) The P. wickerhamii introns are located at positions within the structural genes which can be considered as preferred intron insertion sites in homologous mitochondrial genes from fungi or liverwort . |
| 8 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 9 | Council officers have also been looking at playgrounds in the Witham area . |
| 10 | A new plant has been built at Billingham in the UK to increase the production capacity of ICI Specialties ' biodegradable resin , ‘ Biopol ’ , to 300 tonnes per year . |
| 11 | ‘ The decision was then taken to significantly extend this Company 's activities and a new 25,000 square foot facility has been built at Musaffah in the industrial area of Abu Dhabi . |
| 12 | But we are looking at charities from the institutional end of the business , not the private client end ’ . |
| 13 | N B N B when you see the moon you are looking at light from the sun reflected from the moon circles . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Together the two are priced at $10,000 for the first copy . |
| 16 | Tickets for this historic run are priced at £35.00 for the round trip , with the return trip to London by NSE Premier Charter 8TC Set . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nobody in marketing is looking at a plus or minus two per cent — they 're looking at trends in the longer term . ’ |
| 19 | But you 're looking at things on the top floor where they 're not squashed — not to the same extent at any rate-so … they would look … bigger than normal … yes ? ’ |
| 20 | The audience peers at U2 like they 're looking at animals in the zoo . |
| 21 | hopefully there 'll be a win for Swindon tomorrow night … they 're playing at Portsmouth in the third round of the coca-cola cup … the other road to Wembley is underway again … the draw for the first round of the FA Cup was made today … |
| 22 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 23 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
| 24 | Fred has been employed at Dubbingtons for the past twelve years . |
| 25 | As the management will be aware , Fred has been employed at Dubbingtons for the past twelve years . |
| 26 | More than 24,000 birds have been counted at Strathbeg during the course of a single day , and many more visit the reserve throughout the year . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Radioactive waste had been disposed at sea by the Northern and Pacific Navies and the Murmansk merchant fleet . |
| 29 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 30 | Commenting on warnings that East Anglia faces a fourth year of drought and restrictions on the use of water for irrigating crops , Mr Peter Ferguson , a director of Halcrow , a firm of consulting engineers , in Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Farm ponds provide storage for surface or ground water sources and can be filled at times of the year when there is more water than the crops require . ’ |