Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 2 | Their own wounded could be attended to at the nearby village of Eckford , and then disappear into these their own Border hills . |
| 3 | 8.1 shall despatch the Licensed Software to by post or by such other carrier as and agree upon , which shall be notified to at the above address or to such address as shall in due course communicate to as its delivery address within the Territory . |
| 4 | The message Chairman an and er having an idea of , of your second item of urgent business erm it , this perhaps provides the link the important er point that I wanted to emphasise was that the issue of rainfall , the defect on erm the drainage of an area and er water catchment areas and so on , drainage basins is a matter which can only be dealt with at the strategic level and it is therefore of considerable concern to me in view of local government and the questions that is raising about the future of strategic planning could actually make this coordination much more difficult in the future , unless we take steps now to protect the er strategic planning , whatever form local government takes strategic planning itself also needs a degree of |
| 5 | Areas of political life which are best dealt with multi-nationally must obviously be dealt with at the appropriate decision-making level . |
| 6 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 7 | Unlike CFCs , CO2 emissions can not be dealt with at the micro level by changing technologies : CO2 is so directly linked with almost all productive technology that its control must have profound macroeconomic consequences . |
| 8 | They say too many of our telephones have been captured , you never know who you might be talking to at the other end . ’ |
| 9 | The one we were hiding from at the fair . |
| 10 | If however it is felt that some of our members are n't being catered for at the present time please let the group organisers know so that , if possible , adjustments may be made . |
| 11 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 12 | It is important that the explanatory statement should remain accurate at the time at which it is voted upon at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 13 | Well I think it 's not a superstructure that 's been put there because , I mean , for example when you get a particular idea there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | Well , I think it 's not erm a superstructure that 's been put there , because , I mean for example when you get a particular idea , there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing , and erm again and again you find that it is , that the thing you half suspected is mentioned by a character later . |