Example sentences of "it be [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 2 | But an RUC spokesman warned : ‘ The motorist who is tempted to buy one of these will be discovered at some stage , whether it is presented at a police station in relation to an accident or submitted by a new owner to an MOT centre for a test . ’ |
| 3 | As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London , ‘ Riff-Raff ’ , directed by Ken Loach ( he of ‘ Hidden Agenda ’ ) builds a portrait — sometimes gritty , often funny — of life as it is lived at the margins . |
| 4 | It is sold at the monuments , tourist information centres and through an increasing number of travel trade operators . |
| 5 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
| 6 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 7 | Already it was whispering at the roots of grass , inciting it to rise , breathing on sheltered primroses , preaching its false gospel of resurrection and renewal , while underneath , the rot continued , the trampled snail returned to clay and beauty drew sustenance from a grave . |
| 8 | It was aimed at the women and children . ’ |
| 9 | In this sense it was aimed at the problems highlighted by the National Unemployed Workers Movement demonstration in 1932 as well as the fascist disturbances . |