Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 32 | Guinness has been targeted at a wider audience , in particular the more individualistic drinker , a position which is supported by innovative advertising around the world . |
| 33 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 34 | The first , having to do with the very nature of the notations , is that some of them have certainly been added at a later date . |
| 35 | It involves transformation of data so that they are reported at a comparable geographical scale , projection and set of geographical units . |
| 36 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |
| 37 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
| 38 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 39 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 40 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 41 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 42 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 43 | Six till seven this evening the youth and junior group of the Beeston Red Cross are meeting at a hundred and fifty six High Road in Beeston that 's the Red Cross Centre at six . |
| 44 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
| 45 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 46 | Where the publications are a supply for acquisition , the recipient subscriber will account for VAT in its member state although such publications are zero-rated in the UK , in other member states they are taxed at a reduced rate , and in Denmark they are taxed at 25% ! |
| 47 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 48 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 49 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 50 | They are fine in Cookstown when you are looking at a working population of 8 or 9,000 people , but in Belfast travel-to-work area you are looking at something like 150,000 people and that confuses the well-off and the very impoverished . |
| 51 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 52 | and i if , I mean i if you take 's argument , if you take 's argument , they are all to do with , with provinces in the south and , and the argument is that here we have , we are looking at a commercialized viable economy and both and and for example are all arguing really that landlordism is not the problem the problem is that you , you , you , you you need to go further in terms of commercialization and that that , and that 's the way to go . |
| 53 | Okay , now that result holds , right , for all erm for all marginal relationships Okay , so if we are looking at a marginal marginal cost curve , right , we have got that 's our marginal cost , that 's our average cost we , we 're intersecting here when in the case it is a minimum so marginal costs cuts through average costs at its minimum value we are looking at average revenue and marginal revenue average revenue function marginal revenue function This is our total revenue function and the same relationship is embodied there , but , notice that between the average and the average revenue and marginal revenue functions , right , do n't intersect simply because we have got a linear relationship here right , average revenue is always above marginal revenue in this particular case . |
| 54 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 55 | Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’ |
| 56 | Not great poetry , by any means ; but it convinces me that Crabbe and Peter Grimes and myself do stop beside an opening sluice , and that we are looking at an actual English tideway , and not at some vague , vast imaginary waterfall , which crashes from nowhere to nowhere . |
| 57 | Children are sometimes told ‘ it is rude to stare ’ , but cat-lovers often forget this rule when they are looking at an approaching feline . |
| 58 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 59 | The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford . |
| 60 | The result of our cursory glance at the attempts that have been made at a new perspective on law and the legal system is thus both clear and complicated : the legal system can no longer be understood to be monolithic , but is differentiated , and this differentiation is structured by its relationship to other social sub-systems ; law , moreover , has a different ideological role in different national legal cultures . |