Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cumulative runtimes from the beginning of the movie are given at the right hand edge of the page . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The new stamp 's been developed at the Royal Mail 's Research and Development Centre in Swindon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The vineyards of Mailly-Champagne are situated at the northern end of the village on fairly flat ground where they fare exceptionally well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | MacGillivrays from Australia and America are expected at the five-day shindig , to include treks , lectures and whisky swilling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Up to 10,000 are expected at the 12-hour party scheduled to begin at 8pm tomorrow on a private estate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whether or not hydrocarbon generation continued during the Mesozoic , losses from Palaeozoic reservoirs during this period could have been trapped at the post-Carboniferous unconformity , for example by the Lias shales in the Wealden area . |
| 16 | Training Centres are located at the following Singer shops : |
| 17 | The remainder of Veterinary Pathology and Veterinary Clinical Studies ( including the Large Animal Practice ) and the Department of Tropical Animal Health ( housed in the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine ) are located at the Veterinary Field Station at Easter Bush , some 7 miles south of Summerhall . |
| 18 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |
| 19 | They found that the worst abuses had been committed at the notorious Quatro " rehabilitation centre " in Angola but also said that conditions in other ANC camps in Angola , Tanzania , Uganda and Zambia had in no way been " remotely acceptable " . |
| 20 | Discarded and shredded by the Bank of England and banknote manufacturer Thomas De La Rue , the paper money has been mixed at the Botanic Centre with sludge from a KP crisp factory on Teesside to form a peat-free compost . |
| 21 | Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge . |
| 22 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 23 | Now a special paddock has been built at the Australian government 's Ginnindera Experimental Station , surrounded by piping which collects air from the field and analyses its gas content . |
| 24 | The results of this research programme are disseminated at the pre-publication stage through a Discussion Paper series ; the success rate in placing these papers in academic journals is remarkably high . |
| 25 | Once the cursor has been positioned at the required place on the screen its position can be locked by pressing one of the ‘ ears ’ . |
| 26 | The Emperor Hadrian 's British headquarters may have been uncovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda near Hadrian 's wall , Northumberland . |
| 27 | The last item entered at either of these prompts will be taken as the current item , even if an incompatible entry has been made at the other prompt . |
| 28 | The purchaser claimed under two heads , first for the capital loss and secondly for his loss of profits — the latter head being based on the difference over three years between the profits made at the machine 's actual rate of output and the higher profits which would have been made at the warranted rate of output . |
| 29 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
| 30 | Philip Drew had also been seen at the relevant time by a stagehand . |