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

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1 It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all .
2 If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable .
3 If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness .
4 The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time .
5 If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time .
6 Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny .
7 I was grateful to be called anything at all .
8 For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care .
9 To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change .
10 It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics .
11 a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program .
12 These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them .
13 It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience .
14 You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter .
15 Perhaps the survivors of a stranding are less likely to be stranded themselves at a later date .
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