Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’
2 The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse .
3 In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse .
4 Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations .
5 Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake .
6 There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power .
7 Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 .
8 Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored .
9 Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 .
10 Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) .
11 Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old .
12 Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines .
13 Humboldt Penguin chicks are reared regularly at the park , and in the breeding season some may be seen in the specially designed rearing unit alongside their enclosure .
14 Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard .
15 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
16 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
17 The following steps are carried out at the planning stage :
18 These strange creatures are carried eastwards at a depth of about 700 feet by the great ocean-wide current known as the Gulf Stream .
19 But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start .
20 Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it .
21 Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate .
22 He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police .
23 ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . )
24 He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting .
25 It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience .
26 If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful .
27 Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers .
28 If I am looking directly at a stick insect , 8 inches in front of my nose and in strong daylight , I shall not be fooled by it .
29 The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen .
30 The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers .
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