Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine |
| 2 | The cumulative runtimes from the beginning of the movie are given at the right hand edge of the page . |
| 3 | It is important that assessment methodologies which will provide valid and reliable results are developed at an early stage . |
| 4 | Might this be solely because its mystery and complexity are recognized at an instinctive level ? |
| 5 | Bilal and Samir have been treated at the world-famous Stoke Mandeville spinal injuries unit . |
| 6 | Generally , independent advisers are registered at the Financial Intermediaries , Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association ( FIMBRA ) . |
| 7 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 8 | The new stamp 's been developed at the Royal Mail 's Research and Development Centre in Swindon . |
| 9 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 10 | For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value . |
| 11 | A new Church of England Church had also been erected at the southern end of Sutton Lane , and was named St. Michael 's as the money for it had been realised by the sale of St. Michael 's Church in Burleigh Street , London , which had been associated with St. Martins-in-the-Fields . |
| 12 | Speech patterns are formed at an early age and are firmly established — part of our way of life , an almost subconscious activity , rather in the same way as chewing or walking . |
| 13 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 14 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 15 | The vineyards of Mailly-Champagne are situated at the northern end of the village on fairly flat ground where they fare exceptionally well . |
| 16 | The find will be the subject of an inquest , probably next year after all research and conservation on it has been completed at the British Museum . |
| 17 | From their article on the latter it is clear that Taskopruzade and Mecdi suppose him to have been located at the Zincirli medrese at Aksaray in Karaman at the time of Molla Fenari 's period of study with him . |
| 18 | If you take Enterprise insurance cover , infants are included at no extra cost . |
| 19 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 20 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 21 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 22 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 23 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 24 | Bromhead had been educated at the private school for the deaf in Rugby and was a fluent writer and reader of German , French and Latin . |
| 25 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 26 | MacGillivrays from Australia and America are expected at the five-day shindig , to include treks , lectures and whisky swilling . |
| 27 | Hundreds of chief executive officers and senior Unix executives from all the Unix licensees and significant end-user sites are expected at the invitation-only affair . |
| 28 | Up to 10,000 are expected at the 12-hour party scheduled to begin at 8pm tomorrow on a private estate . |
| 29 | Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese . |
| 30 | The £750,000 McDonald 's burger bar has been installed at the major London teaching hospital Guy 's with the slogan McDonald 's Is Good For You . |