Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.

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1 They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’
2 ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … .
3 The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse .
4 Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast .
5 Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter .
6 The houses are arranged around at least one courtyard , so most rooms have windows on two or three sides , and therefore are light and airy .
7 Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all .
8 Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored .
9 Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 .
10 Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 .
11 Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) .
12 Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old .
13 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
14 Elections are carried out at grass-roots assemblies , directed by members of the local Popular Militias …
15 The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations .
16 This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time .
17 The following steps are carried out at the planning stage :
18 appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ;
19 Simple tests to see that your baby 's sight is developing as it should be are carried out at her normal child health clinic checks , but a detailed examination by an eye specialist wo n't be given until a child is between three or four years old .
20 Environmental Audits Environmental audits are carried out at our operating sites to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements and operation in accordance with this policy 's objectives .
21 Tests are carried out at the United States Department of Energy 's site in Nevada under the terms of the 1958 agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States .
22 The four major subsystems are carried out at different locations , by different personnel , and therefore formed ‘ natural ’ boundaries .
23 If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer .
24 Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars .
25 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
26 Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration , drying , milling and packing .
27 But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start .
28 Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight .
29 Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it .
30 Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate .
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