Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 2 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |
| 5 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 6 | Firstly the side rail joints are set out at an angle as the seat increases in width towards the front . |
| 7 | Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk . |
| 8 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 9 | AN analysis of organised crime by leading experts on Triads , the Mafia and Hell 's Angels is to be carried out at a conference next week . |
| 10 | Drake has chestnut head with distinctive broad-bordered green stripe , and at rest can be picked out at a distance by horizontal white line above wing and buffish yellow patch behind tail coverts . |
| 11 | These can only be sold off at a loss . |
| 12 | A SET of race ace Nigel Mansell 's tyres are to be sold off at an auction next month for Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital in London . |
| 13 | ‘ In this game you need people like Simon who can be called up at a moment 's notice . ’ |
| 14 | It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice . |
| 15 | ‘ There is no doubt about the quality of the coal , but two questions need to be answered — can it be brought out at a price which allows a profit and can the consortium attract the investment required to run the place ? ’ |
| 16 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |
| 17 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 18 | The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice . |
| 19 | The Allies then presented Germany with a bill for US & dollar 32 billion to be paid off at a rate of & dollar 500 million dollars per year . |
| 20 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |
| 21 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |
| 22 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 23 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 24 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 25 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 26 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 27 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 28 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 29 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 30 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |