Example sentences of "be [verb] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pottery plaque has been placed at the entrance and her picture on the wall in the vestibule . |
| 2 | ‘ Insufficient consideration had been given at the design and certification stage to the stress distribution in the horizontal stabiliser spar structure following a top chord failure in the region outboard of the closure rib … ’ |
| 3 | How towers are designed at the top and bottom is crucial , what goes on in between is largely irrelevant . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Phyllis , this year , tell me , tell me , tell me how many crimes have been committed at the Park and Rides ? |
| 8 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 9 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 10 | Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT . |
| 11 | The fringes are continuations of the warp strands , and are secured at the top and bottom of the rug to both hold the weft strands in place and add the final decorative touch to the rug . |
| 12 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 13 | We are looking at the pension and life assurance scheme . ’ |
| 14 | Well , we are looking at the situation and I think that 's all we can say about that . |
| 15 | We are looking at the matter and it is currently being considered by the Department . |
| 16 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 17 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 18 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 19 | Scurr is also investigating the use of laporoscopy , where two tiny holes are made at the navel and the hernia repaired from inside . |
| 20 | In the latter two countries there are markedly decentralised union-management structures and a large proportion of collective agreements are made at the enterprise or workplace levels . |
| 21 | Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door . |
| 22 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 23 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 24 | They 're not swimming around , yeah they 're staying at the top as well are n't they ? |
| 25 | The local trading standards officer says Mrs Rees could be prosecuted if her mouse novelties or toys are sold at the fete as usual . |
| 26 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 27 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 28 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 29 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 30 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |