Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK . |
| 2 | Instead , Anne and Tim are expected to call at the Queen Mother 's London home , Clarence House , on their return from Scotland . |
| 3 | This weekend hundreds are expected to arrive at the home of the Earls of Spencer — Althorp park in Northamptonshire . |
| 4 | John Landry of Lotus Development Corp , Philippe Kahn of Borland International Inc and John Sculley of Apple Computer Inc have also been booked to speak at the event . |
| 5 | Ley lines — channels of energy or guide routes for prehistoric travellers — are said to converge at the Tor . |
| 6 | In England and Wales , the Registrar General 's social classes , which are derived from people 's occupations , are used to look at the distribution of everything from the incidence of stillbirth to the distribution of owner occupation . |
| 7 | And so , whenever I am called to dine at the palace , I always sport an old straw boater or knitted bobble hat , to exercise my hereditary privilege . |
| 8 | This year the London Handel Orchestra have been invited to play at the festival in Hesse — Handel 's birthplace . |
| 9 | In , for instance , The huge locomotive snorted and belched its way across the plain we are invited to look at the locomotive as if it were a gigantic animal . |
| 10 | The post translational processing mechanisms that convert progastrin to amidated peptides are known to operate at the post Golgi level on this pathway . |
| 11 | Following on this discussion , the shop decided that it needed to have a policy on career development and it was suggested that ACTS and Staff Council should produce a joint paper. ; A group is to be formed to look at the paper with Sarah Hughes , Bridget Middleton and Peter West in consultation with colleagues ; they will consult with Staff Council concerning a joint paper . |
| 12 | If no safe and adequate access or no adequate unloading facilities there exist then transit shall be deemed to end at the expiry of one clear day after notice in writing ( or by telephone if so previously agreed in writing ) of the arrival of the Consignment at the Carrier 's premises has been sent to the consignee ; and |
| 13 | The defendants were members of the Musicians ' Union , a union with many coloured members , and they gave notice to the plaintiffs that members of the union would not be permitted to play at the ballroom so long as the colour bar was in operation . |
| 14 | Arrangement can be made to stay at the Hotel at a greatly reduced price . |
| 15 | They refused to examine particular complaints or cases , did not examine branch files and did not interview rank-and-file officers ; in other words , they did none of the things that would have had to be done to get at the truth . |
| 16 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |
| 17 | Accordingly , he suggested separate facilities at each exchange for dealing with juveniles ; notices with information about the exchanges were to be displayed in schools ; lists of prospective school-leavers to be sent to the local exchange with details of their ‘ ability , tastes and desires ’ ; and each school-leaver to be told to call at the exchange for an interview . |
| 18 | First , the Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell , must be persuaded to look at the case . |
| 19 | The members of such groups typically believe that their specially created cameras are the only camerae lucidae ; if only people could be persuaded to peep at the world through their lenses , all other cameras would be condemned to political obscurity . |
| 20 | The Court would be bound to look at the matter from the latter point of view . |
| 21 | To be asked to deputise at the age of 22 for soloists as prestigious as Zimerman and Argerich is in itself evidence of Goerner 's rapidly growing reputation in pianistic circles . |
| 22 | ‘ I was delighted to be asked to speak at the opening of this exhibition to mark the Centenary of the Diocesan Vestment Guild . |
| 23 | In Cambridge , Mr Rushdie said it was an honour to be asked to speak at the college , where he was a student in the 1960s . |
| 24 | The Rev. Thomas Tolming said that the Relieving Officer refused aid to deserving poor families who had children , considering that they ought to be put to work at the mine . |
| 25 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 26 | I would suggest that care should be taken to talk at the client 's level — including use of the client 's terminology . |
| 27 | The corrective operation could not be undertaken until the child was three months old , and the doctor recommended that the child should be allowed to stay at the hospital until she was due for surgery , her condition producing difficulties in feeding . |
| 28 | FIVE BANKS , which could lose over £100m if money market transactions by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are ruled unlawful , should not be allowed to appear at the hearing into their legality , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week . |
| 30 | ‘ You had better change the lock on the door , ’ she had teased , ‘ because I might be tempted to peep at the manuscript . ’ |