Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would please Calpers , whose proxy voting has been partly aimed at raising Japan 's niggardly pay-outs . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I am concerned but these figures may have something to do with the fact that as a direct result of the Warrington bombing and shooting the serious crime squad has been completely centred at Warrington , which has left the rest of the county without adequate cover . |
| 3 | SAVE has been closely involved at the early stages of two more , The Hazells in Bedfordshire and Cullen House in Banffshire , both of which were under serious threat . |
| 4 | ( This criticism has been particularly levelled at the workings of the MMC in the UK . ) |
| 5 | But the impact of vestry policy on population movements and particularly on the supply of labour to industry and its cost has been little explored at parish level . |
| 6 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 7 | Given the serious clinical ramifications , most attention has been justifiably directed at determining whether antihypertensive treatments are carcinogenic . |
| 8 | Spencer Stuart 's success rate — proportion of assignments successfully completed to the client 's satisfaction within the specified time — has been independently estimated at 80% , much higher than many rival firms . |
| 9 | DIAGNOSTIC equipment bought with £16,000 raised in the community has been officially commissioned at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 10 | Lord Mayor , Employment Action has been thoroughly debated at the previous Council Committee meetings , with all it 's injustices brought to light . |
| 11 | The profit chargeable for income tax purposes is calculated in the same way as if the Bond has been fully encashed at the date of death . |
| 12 | In fact , since the hotel opened last September , the restaurant has been fully booked at weekends . |
| 13 | French space policy has been actively pursued at the level of Prime Minister , Cabinet and President . |
| 14 | In England , the mortality from the plague has been variously estimated at between 20 per cent and 35 per cent of the population , and it may be that the higher figure is the more accurate . |
| 15 | This has been only hinted at here . |
| 16 | Work has been specifically aimed at developing procedure manuals for the Offshore Division , Education Catering Services and Contracting . |
| 17 | Although as yet there is in English law no general rule giving the plaintiff a right of recovery from a defendant who has been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , the concept of unjust enrichment lies at the heart of all the individual instances in which the law does give a right of recovery . |
| 18 | The fee for this additional service has been currently fixed at £25 and will be payable by the tutor at the time of application . |
| 19 | Long hair has been gently backcombed at the crown and softly curled for a natural effect . |
| 20 | Zimbabwe Geological investigations are continuing in the Archaean Midlands Greenstone Belt of Zimbabwe as part of an integrated exploration project in which appropriate methods of regional structural analysis are being introduced as a basis for formulating sound gold exploration strategies and identifying targets for follow-up by the commercial sector.By the end of the second year about 1700 square kilometres ( or 70% ) of the project area has been tectonically mapped at scales of 1:25 000 to 1:50 000 , and selected areas , including over 80 medium-to-small gold mines , have been subjected to detailed structural analysis at survey scales of 1:200 to 1:2500 . |
| 21 | MEANWHILE , the one man , one vote principle has been further enshrined at the 585 member Whitby Conservative Club where a motion to admit the opposite , er , sex as full members has been somewhat emphatically defeated . |
| 22 | The Signature collection has been entirely reformulated at Estée Lauder , with the Eyeshadow Duo incorporating eye treatment elements : a Bioplex Complex which soothes , protects and hydrates the skin . |
| 23 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 24 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |
| 25 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 26 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 27 | Attempts to trade on the location of the short-run Phillips curves means the equilibria that governments try to engineer are successively found at 1 , 2 and 3 , assuming that incorporates the initially expected inflation rate . |
| 28 | The second example of electioneering is similarly aimed at youthful voters . |
| 29 | This I am told was publicly declared at Redruth market last Friday . |
| 30 | Er , I vividly remember my , my wedding day , and the bit I remember most is actually waiting to go into church with my father , and I remember being particularly moved at that time thinking that that was the end of one era and about to become part of another and I did n't feel that I was being owned somebody and about to be owned by anyone else in the slightest ! |