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 . |