Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , whenever I am called to dine at the palace , I always sport an old straw boater or knitted bobble hat , to exercise my hereditary privilege . |
| 2 | Whaddon boss , Les Bence , told us ‘ The competition might seem one-sided what with all the other teams being school sides and us also getting a bye until the semi-finals , but I am determined to see at least one cup in our cabinet this season . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm determined to stick at it , because I really enjoy my work , ’ says Lesley . |
| 4 | During one ceaseless chant I was tempted to look at my watch , but did n't dare raise my arm since this was the signal to stop the synchro-energiser |
| 5 | Knowing that I would be returning to work when ( my second baby ) was three months old , I acquired a battery-operated breast pump , as this time I was determined to express at lunch time to keep my supply going . |
| 6 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 7 | When I was asked to speak at my farewell party I said that I felt a Ghanaian could have done my job and that was one of the reasons I was leaving . |
| 8 | Recently I was asked to look at two ponies . |
| 9 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 10 | 2–9 William Allan of Sunderland , a poet of no mean rank , had written a drama " Ian Vor " the chief incidents of which are made to occur at Dunyveg in Islay in 1807 . |
| 11 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 12 | They then made two coded telephone warnings to Scotland Yard at 8pm claiming there were four bombs planted in a one-mile radius of the West End which were set to explode at about 8.30pm . |
| 13 | In a review which is intended to operate at an institutional level , it is of considerable importance that it should be seen that way by those taking part . |
| 14 | As expected ( UX No 384 ) , the two other Unix platforms it will market OfficePower on are Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations running SunOs 4.1.2 , which is scheduled to ship at the end of June and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 AIX systems , which ICL says will hit the streets at the end of September . |
| 15 | Regrettably but perhaps inevitably , the ambivalence of feeling and thought which is bound to exist at any time of change has been seized upon by those who can profit from it . |
| 16 | ( 8.19 ) is the value in period n of the dividend income to infinity which is assumed to grow at the ‘ normal ’ rate , ( ) , discounted back to the present . |
| 17 | The motion of this portion of the sewing machine is dictated by the constant angular velocity , which is considered to occur at the drive shaft A. In the kinematics program this motion is represented by the construction of a graph for the rotation of this component ( AZ-rotation ) . |
| 18 | During the fourth quarter of the year , an internal Asynchronous Transfer Mode interface will will be added , which is claimed to run at speeds of up to 155Mbps . |
| 19 | A SHAKESPEARE play which was scheduled to open at the Liverpool Empire on Monday has been cancelled . |
| 20 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 21 | Left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals , and called instead for increases in public spending to reduce unemployment , which was expected to remain at around 10 per cent . |
| 22 | The scheme will not apply to staff who are contracted to work at multiple locations . |
| 23 | To complete our user records , which the EC Directive also obliges us to keep and up-date , could you please , as Horticultural representative on the Computing Sub-Group , co-ordinate a response from AD , GD and HD as to the names of all operators who are estimated to spend at least one hour per day working at a multi-user PC as part of their normal duties ( I 've already got user names for single-user machines ) . |
| 24 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 25 | Even so , you are advised to leave at least one clear day between the flight and an important business meeting . |
| 26 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 27 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 28 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 29 | The fact that the Phillips curve had appeared on the scene over thirty years after the publication of the General Theory , and that , in the interim , Keynesianism had managed to flourish without it , made little impression on those critics who were determined to strike at Keynesianism with any weapon which was to hand . |
| 30 | Most of us are familiar with the stories of Pavlov 's dogs who were conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell . |