Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work has been exhibited regularly at the New English Art Club , the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and Royal Watercolour Society . |
| 2 | This planned to reduce expenditure by $S2,200 million ( US$180 million — US dollar conversions are made here at the unofficial rate US$1.00=£S11.4 ) . |
| 3 | Still others have argued that women 's oppression in capitalist societies is to be explained primarily at the ideological level as a result of the prevailing conceptions of passive and dependent femininity . |
| 4 | The report also calls for increased funding and a higher profile for the Energy Efficiency Office at the Department of Energy and suggests that energy policy should in future be formulated more at the European Community level rather than the national level . |
| 5 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , Lord Kilbrandon 's suggestion of a single offence of unlawful homicide were adopted , the crucial questions of culpability would be decided solely at the sentencing stage by the judge . |
| 7 | REMEMBER — IN BRITAIN , IMAX CAN BE SEEN ONLY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY , FILM AND TELEVISION , BRADFORD |
| 8 | That can no longer be done primarily at the national level ; it requires a socialist , European strategy . |
| 9 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 10 | This also happens with hand planes : it can be sanded away at the finishing stage . |
| 11 | Enriched uranium would be produced commercially at the Navy-run Aramar research centre at Ipero in Sao Paulo state from January 1990 , and Pinheiro da Silva considered it feasible that it could be produced on an industrial scale by 1997 to supply Brazil 's nuclear reactors . |
| 12 | Auguste had added the course in the interests of the Prince of Wales ; it was to be served virtually at the same time as the entrée , in defiance of the rules , in the hope it would attract less attention . |
| 13 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 14 | The situation will be reviewed again at the next CITES meeting in 1992 . |
| 15 | ORDINARY life in medieval Cheshire will be discussed tonight at the joint meeting of two local history societies . |
| 16 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 17 | The announcement will end months of acrimony after it appeared that a guarantee to base the centre in the city would be snatched away at the 11th hour . |
| 18 | And Charlotte was suddenly aware of him as a person , and by no means an unintelligent person , either ; but above all a vital presence , to be ignored only at the general peril . |
| 19 | In view of future events it is important to note the absence of detail on agriculture , even though this had been designated a special economic activity which would be handled completely at the supranational level . |
| 20 | Finance director Klaus Ruetschi said financial controls and auditing would be strengthened both at the Swiss headquarters and plants abroad . |
| 21 | The scheme will be launched tomorrow at the Black Horse , The Green , Billingham . |
| 22 | This would be aimed mainly at the 12-14 age group although the middle and upper schools could participate to a lesser extent . |
| 23 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 24 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 25 | They were done once at the other house were n't they ? |
| 26 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 27 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 28 | A new Friends of the Samaritans group is being launched tonight at the Central Hall , Renshaw Street , Liverpool , at 7.30pm . |
| 29 | As you will be aware from previous correspondence , the third series of level two coach education courses are being staged presently at the Scottish School of PE , Jordanhill College and at the Scottish Centre for Physical Education , Movement and Leisure Studies at Moray House College . |
| 30 | A crisis meeting was being held today at the National Trust 's Victorian Crown Bar opposite the Europa . |