Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 3 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 4 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 5 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 6 | ‘ As a result they are placed at risk . |
| 7 | These explanations are treated at length in the work of Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) and Fothergill , Kitson and Monk ( 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Extensive calcareous flowstone and stalactite deposits are developed at spring discharge points in fractured bituminous limestones and combustion-metamorphosed marbles : the ground water is saturated with calcium hydroxide , with the consequence that calcite and aragonite rapidly precipitate when it comes into contact with atmospheric carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 10 | She 's the same as we 've all been treated at home |
| 11 | There have been reports about an increasing number of people suffering from food poisoning and accusing fingers have been pointed at food manufacturers , distributors , caterers and even consumers . |
| 12 | We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process . |
| 13 | You should use the opiate with an anti-emetic because many of these patients are nauseated at presentation . |
| 14 | It is worth investigating what the child eats for school lunch , or how many sweets are consumed at break-time , if school behaviour tends to be worse . |
| 15 | Members , branches , action groups , etc who intend to propose motions for debate , are asked to make sure that these are received at HQ in St Albans by first post on FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 7 , 1992 . |
| 16 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 17 | Most readers of this book aged over 30 will have been taught at school that the atom is made up of little billiard balls : in the centre there is the nucleus , made of biggish billiard balls called protons and neutrons ; around the nucleus travel very small billiard balls called electrons . |
| 18 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 19 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 20 | Qualifying corporate bonds , while offering a deferral of the charge to tax on capital gains , have certain disadvantages which are explained at para 23.2.1.3 below . |
| 21 | The pigments which optically separate one ommatidium from another are withdrawn at night so that each rhabdom can receive light from many facets . |
| 22 | From the document we learn that not only were pumps installed to drain the mines but a water-powered battery of stamps had been erected at Tilberthwaite . |
| 23 | And if it is the intention of regions to put speakers on , especially those regions that are situated at back of Congress , if the speakers could come to the front it would save a great deal of time . |
| 24 | They recognise the need to provide powerful incentives if students are to remain at school beyond 16 and graduate with a high school certificate . |
| 25 | In December 1330 Edward wrote to David asking him to give effect to his father 's promise and restore Wake and Beaumont to their Scottish lands ; but the Scots prevaricated , and in the autumn of 1331 Edward 's policy towards Scotland hardened , influenced no doubt by the fact that the final payment of Bruce 's indemnity had been received at midsummer . |
| 26 | Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 . |
| 27 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 28 | Soon after 1600 on Sunday 6 October 1990 a dramatic change in weather conditions led to hurricane-force northerly winds along the east coast of Scotland , and it soon became clear to Coastguards that a number of divers had been caught at sea . |
| 29 | The Sectional Councils may reach agreements on matters affecting the region , and also , through a system of subcommittees , review a large volume of individual claims that have not been resolved at LDC level . |
| 30 | ‘ Their personal problems should have been resolved at home , ’ said an official . |