Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various factors thus appear to be at the root of the inner city problem , many of them similar in nature to those behind the problems underlying the North-South divide . |
| 2 | Particular attention will be paid to forwarding agents in inland areas where route choices via seaports could be expected to be at a maximum : ie the Midlands in England , eastern France , south-western Federal Republic of Germany , and Switzerland . |
| 3 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 4 | But she confirmed that he was expected to be at the match . |
| 5 | Although the machine , which is designed to read hand print but not cursive writing , is expected to be at the Spring Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago , it is not expected to be available until early next year . |
| 6 | The job has to be at a senior enough level and it has to be constrained enough to enable the job to be searched . |
| 7 | Flow rates in pressure filters are usually around 3 gal/min per ft2 ( 154.41. /min per m2 ) of filter surface area , whereas backwashing has to be at a high rate , usually 10 gal/min per ft2 ( 514.51. /min per m2 ) of bed area , for 5–10 min . |
| 8 | If there is , it has to be at a deeper level of thought and interaction than we have so far identified . |
| 9 | But er , any acquisition has to fit extremely well strategically and it has to be at a price that we consider to be a , a , a good price . |
| 10 | To deliver water from these depths the pumping machine has to be at the bottom of the well . |
| 11 | Where in the detective short story ingenuity was , in principle , the only quality called for , in the crime short story ingenuity has to be at the service of imagination . |
| 12 | Interestingly , and extremely non-intuitive , is that the clipping shape has to be at the ‘ back ’ of the drawing and not in front as might be expected . |
| 13 | Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others . |
| 14 | The national coach 's belief is that at the next meeting of the SFA 's International Committee the question of how club is currently strangling country has to be at the top of the agenda . |
| 15 | The package has to be at an inclusive price covering more than 24 hours , or including an overnight stay . |
| 16 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 17 | I want to be at the border by then and that 's two hundred and fifty miles after Tam . ’ |
| 18 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 19 | The change is unlikely to help heal relations between Downing Street and France , reported to be at an all-time low . |
| 20 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 21 | The potential threat of the conveyance to the wife and new husband being put aside if the sale to the new husband could be considered to be at an undervalue must be borne in mind ( see p5 and Insolvency Act 1986 , s339 ) . |
| 22 | and hinted that it would probably be a good idea if the Rector of St. Mary 's , the Vicar of St. Peter 's , and Mr. John Meridyth ( another Grammar School Visitor from the 1850s ) , who were considered to be at the root of the trouble , were not appointed Trustees . |
| 23 | Now he was reported to be at the Mamounia in order to work on a book entitled The Mighty and the Meek . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister claims that he wants to be at the heart of Europe , but his real objective is a bypass operation . |
| 25 | The Report estimated the LDCs ' development finance needs to be at a minimum of $100bil per annum for the remainder of this century . |
| 26 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 27 | And in the majority of those cases , that is a transient problem , and teacher assistance needs to be at a level of , of general support to get them over that period . |
| 28 | We hope that these methods will help teachers themselves to enjoy poetry and to share their pleasure with their pupils : ‘ Poetry needs to be at the heart of work in English because of the quality of language at work on experience that it offers to us . |
| 29 | We need to ensure that our white collar members have the help and the support and the advice available to them , but that help and that advice needs to be at the right time and at the right place . |
| 30 | Proper audit er is the effective way er to detect fraud and that needs to be at the at the er the re requirement er er that we impose er on and I , as I pointed out er at the moment the auditors themselves are not being effectively er regulated . |