Example sentences of "to be [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These expressions do not mean that the parties have the right to be heard at a formal hearing : what they convey is that the parties can state their case in writing . |
| 2 | Closure of Harefield Hospital is recommended , although the transplantation programme is likely to be maintained at a different site ( at Northwick Park , the Royal Brompton , or Oxford ) . |
| 3 | Nuclear Electric officials agreed to a request from Leiston district councillor John Geater for details of the costs of nuclear generation to be presented at a future meeting . |
| 4 | Hundreds arrived to be registered at a special inquiry centre in St Saviour 's church , which will be open from 10am to 10pm until tomorrow night . |
| 5 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 6 | Prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive Terry Aston said the oil in the storage tanks was meant to be kept at a safe temperature of 40 degrees centigrade . |
| 7 | As a result US interest rates had to be kept at a high level . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 9 | Parental responsibility appears here in the form of a duty to ensure that the child is examined ; there is an offence on failing without reasonable cause to comply with requirements of a notice requiting the child to be examined at a stipulated place and time . |
| 10 | Even the duly authorised activities of the Simonova were going to be undertaken at a respectable distance . |
| 11 | The bridge , on the Chester improvement scheme on the A41 , had to be raised at a total cost of almost £1m , said a National Audit Office report out today . |
| 12 | A call can be booked in advance with the operator to be connected at a specified time . |
| 13 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 14 | Sun Microsystems Inc is to invest a further £12m in its European manufacturing site at Linlithglow , Scotland : its Sparcstation 10 workstation is to be built at a new 70,000 square foot building , including , for the first time , the printed circuit boards ; up to 100 new jobs are expected to be created at the 350-strong operation . |
| 15 | The houses were to be built at a pre-arranged cost and the architectural detail of each was to be carefully considered . |
| 16 | Sheer cliffs , 300–400 feet high , defend the island , relenting only where a breach permits landings to be made at a small beach ; nearby an ancient graveyard and ruined crofts are relics of a former occupation . |
| 17 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |
| 18 | Testing , as an evaluation procedure , is more likely to be conducted at a national or at a local education authority level . |
| 19 | The new officers were to be elected at a special congress in December . |
| 20 | The network of Training Enterprise Councils ( TEC ) has been set up to allow strategies for dealing with vocational training , employment needs , new enterprise and economic development to be handled at a local level by a single local body , which benefits from the practical experience and local knowledge of the employers and others who serve on its board . |
| 21 | The owners of steelworks would contract with a master craftsman for a particular job to be done at a particular price . |
| 22 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 23 | When it comes to a more sophisticated use , DLabel includes a database utility which allows you to specify fields from the a database to be printed at a given position . |
| 24 | Personal savings [ see p. 37379 ] were to be converted at a one-to-one rate up to ceilings of 2,000 Marks for children up to 14 years of age , 4,000 Marks for people aged 15-59 , and 6,000 Marks for those over 60 ; savings in excess of these ceilings would be converted at 2:1 , as would state companies ' debts and liabilities . |
| 25 | Erm there is then a case for that policy to be covered in the structure plan and of course in local plans and at the local plan stage there is an opportunity for councils to er interpret the structure plan policy to add er exceptions if they so wish and for those to be tested at a local plan enquiry . |
| 26 | This law enables the volume of a gas to be calculated at a specific temperature and pressure so long as the volume of the gas is known at another temperature and pressure . |
| 27 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 28 | RARE issues of bawdy adult comic Viz are to be auctioned at a fine art sale . |
| 29 | Seven modules have been introduced covering areas such as cognitive , occupational , developmental and clinical psychology , and providing the skills and knowledge likely to be required at a basic level in higher education . |
| 30 | While you should be offered the right to be accompanied at a disciplinary hearing by a fellow employee or ( if appropriate ) by a trade union representative , you might prefer your solicitor to be present . |