Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 2 | But just to add to the usual conspiracy theories — why could n't it be repeated at the end of the game — surely it was one of the key points of the game . |
| 3 | ‘ If it were sold at the price it needs to be to make a profit it would be a collector 's item , ’ says Peter Osborne , Marlow 's sales and marketing director . |
| 4 | It 's served at the end of the raft trip , ’ he explained to Lucy . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the sheer professionalism of the job as it 's done at the moment is hard to beat . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got a cottage in one of the Forest villages , but it 's tenanted at the moment , and I live in town . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 9 | Sadly , there turns out to be a sound explanation for this instruction it 's aimed at the club audience , who watch the show as it happens on banks of TV monitors . |
| 10 | If it 's disconnected at the handle bare terminals are left exposed . |
| 11 | But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real . |
| 12 | It is situated at the end of a rainbow . |
| 13 | Standing in Town Hall Square in the Old Town , it is fronted at the base by seventeenth and eighteenth century gabled houses , while behind is the Renaissance Týn Court with Doric loggia . |
| 14 | It is based at the University of Essex and is funded mainly by the University , the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) and the Higher Education Funding Councils ( HEFCs ) . |
| 15 | The water holds it in place within the pool while it is secured at the top by rocks , paving slabs or turves . |
| 16 | When it is pointed at the receiver and pressed staff hear a bleep warning them someone needs help getting in . |
| 17 | Moreover , if it is applied at the instant before the actual strike goes in , the loud , shrill sound has the effect of momentarily stunning an opponent , and in that brief fraction of a second a whole range of techniques can be directed towards a target . |
| 18 | Military strength is of little value if it is achieved at the expense of economic health . |
| 19 | It is built at the end of a canal and consists of two perfect octagons connected by a passage hall , behind which is a staircase let into another half octagon at the back . |
| 20 | When a new item is to be added to the partition , it is added at the top . |
| 21 | UK , London-based , RCS Microsystems Ltd is to distribute Tritec Electronic GmbH 's GXC-1 graphics accelerator board : it is targeted at the CAD and simulation market and plugs into Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations . |
| 22 | Provided it is returned at the end yes please . |
| 23 | The scale is not very important provided it is chosen at the start and not changed throughout the exercise . |
| 24 | However the pill is the method least preferred by the population controllers because it is taken at the discretion of the user . |
| 25 | Today it is drawn at the rate of 10 t pa . |
| 26 | We have persuaded Doctor Delvin to sign a copy of his A to Z of Good Sex when it is published at the end of October for all SHE readers who write in . |
| 27 | It is directed at the core of the transpor the general un er the er tee the union movement , which is unity thr throughout the workplace . |
| 28 | It is set at the junction of four minor lanes , none of which has any indications of antiquity . |
| 29 | It is aimed at the trekker and European walker rather than the British winter walker and costs about £100 . |
| 30 | Above all it is aimed at the country 's railways , where disorganisation and disruption and not only in politically-inflamed Soviet Transcaucasia have caused dangerous shortfalls of coal and oil stocks at power stations , and of other raw materials at factories across the country . |