Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it . |
| 2 | The balance of relief will continue to be given annually at the rate of 4% of the original cost of the building from the tax year in which it is brought into use . |
| 3 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 4 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 5 | The former are due to be heard together at the beginning of December , a hearing at which the Bar Council will again be represented , and it is clearly too early to predict a result or to consider the implications in detail . |
| 6 | This should be placed prominently at the front of the memorandum in the standard format . |
| 7 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 8 | The GATT round is regularly discussed at the Agriculture Council and I expect it to be considered again at the Council on 30 and 31 March . |
| 9 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 10 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 11 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 12 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 13 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 14 | Education Catering Services are working on two fronts : the production of the quality assurance manual , under the direction of Joanna Carroll , for the central production unit in Ealing ; and the operations manual for school meals which will be installed initially at the mobilisation of the Sunderland school meals contract . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most magnificent mansion to be built here at the turn of the century was Petwood : this by Lady Weighall . |
| 16 | Two such girders — one for the up line , one for the down — were to be made here at the riverside and floated on the tide , to be fitted into niches in the masonry piers . |
| 17 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 18 | This general methodological point needs to be made forcefully at the outset since assessments of socialist realism tend to be somewhat peremptory and superficial through lack of a clearly articulated historical and theoretical view of the subject itself . |
| 19 | Salary payments under the terms of this scheme will be made entirely at the discretion of the Company . |
| 20 | I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation . |
| 21 | As the budget looms , the chancellor seems to be looking again at the feasibility of raising money for the government , by ending the tax relief on mortgages of up to thirty thousand pounds . |
| 22 | 1.1 Any order sent to the Seller by the Purchaser shall be accepted entirely at the discretion of the Seller , and , if so accepted , will only be accepted upon these conditions ( hereafter referred to as the " Conditions " ) and by means of the Seller 's standard order acknowledgement form . |
| 23 | Male pycnogonids have a special pair of ovigerous legs ; they can be seen here at the front , ending in pincers . |
| 24 | This matching ( usually , but not necessarily , on a one-to-one basis ) might be done prospectively at the start of the study , but , if that degree of control is possible , it is usually preferable to use randomization as discussed later ( in Section 15.4 ) . |
| 25 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 26 | Triticale breeders were keen to make the plant insensitive to day length so that it could be grown successfully at the Equator as well as in temperate regions . |
| 27 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 28 | Other apologies may be presented orally at the meeting . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 30 | Dr Connor Mulholland , director of the Royal 's cardiology unit , said that up to 1,100 heart operations could now be performed annually at the hospital . |