Example sentences of "are [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
2 A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years .
3 Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory .
4 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that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is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 .
5 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not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value .
6 Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace .
7 While research dealing with the optimum length of hospital stay is sparse , significantly fewer relapses are seen in patients who complete an inpatient programme and are discharged at a normal weight than in those who leave prematurely .
8 More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate .
9 Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate .
10 Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent .
11 Where the publications are a supply for acquisition , the recipient subscriber will account for VAT in its member state although such publications are zero-rated in the UK , in other member states they are taxed at a reduced rate , and in Denmark they are taxed at 25% !
12 right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level
13 They are fine in Cookstown when you are looking at a working population of 8 or 9,000 people , but in Belfast travel-to-work area you are looking at something like 150,000 people and that confuses the well-off and the very impoverished .
14 Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively .
15 So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us .
16 Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’
17 The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford .
18 In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted .
19 If evaluation is defined as assessing how effectively needs are met at a given cost , then precise identification of needs is obviously paramount , as the Guideline on Evaluation notes , most emphatically : ‘ Without proper identification of need , evaluation is meaningless ’ .
20 Rather than waste unwanted vintages they are sold at a huge discount straight from the barrel — the resulting parties are superb fun .
21 Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components .
22 Vendors who are selling at a substantial price ( including an element for goodwill ) , which has been agreed between the parties on the basis of certain assumptions made by the purchasers regarding the business , are compensated for any risk that they will be asked to take .
23 To solve the problem , pulses are produced at a precise rate of 32,768 per second ( 32.768kHz ) by means of a crystal controlled oscillator .
24 Under this system , health care providers are reimbursed at a predetermined price for each defined unit of workload , regardless of the actual cost involved in providing that unit of workload .
25 Under this system , health care providers are reimbursed at a predetermined price for each defined unit of workload , regardless of the actual cost involved in providing that unit of workload .
26 In the well planned enclosure , a special section of a much larger building , the heaters are mounted at a safe height on rafters or purlins to provide complete safety for shepherds and sheep alike .
27 A deep underground repository planned by NIREX , the nuclear industry waste disposal company , will fail to meet its 2005 target date , if safety issues are aired at a public inquiry .
28 The committee makes recommendations , which are shared at a public meeting .
29 Other autoantibodies directed against cytoskeletal antigens differ from actin as well as antinuclear antibodies giving a ‘ speckled ’ pattern of positivity , are found at a low titre ( <1:100 ) in cryptogenic , ciral , and clcoholic chronic liver disease .
30 It is important that Compacts be designed with sufficient flexibility for those students who are failing at a certain stage , to negotiate re-entry and a further attempt at the goals .
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