Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 2 | Books are taken out , and if they 're put back at all it 's never in the same place . |
| 3 | You have n't been dragged off at all |
| 4 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 5 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 6 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 7 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 8 | A fill can be dropped in at any time while the pattern is playing . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 10 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 11 | With the insertion of implants it could be carried out at any age , but the sensible option would be prophylactic mastectomy either at the completion of her family or at the menopause . ’ |
| 12 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 13 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |
| 14 | It defines the project timescales and priority to enable individual workloads within the group to be planned through DOPACS , and it also important n needed-by dates , the milestones , within the project , which again through DOPACS enables checks on the physical and financial progress to be carried out at any time . |
| 15 | This was not ideal because of fatigue and farm work that had to be carried out at those times . |
| 16 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 17 | Drake at rest distinctive with shortish bill , chestnut head , buff crown , grey underparts and white line on wing ; in flight can be picked out at some distance by conspicuous white forewing . |
| 18 | With the reversal of tidal currents deltas can be built up at both ends of the strait . |
| 19 | The problem with price limits , of course , is that futures contracts are rendered completely illiquid : a position can not be closed out at any price when trading is suspended . |
| 20 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 21 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 22 | I could be called in at any moment . |
| 23 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 24 | Mains electricity was supposedly going to be brought in at some stage , but God only knew when that would be . |
| 25 | Work in progress may be agreed to be brought in at less than its face value to reflect expenses incurred during the period between bill delivery and payment . |
| 26 | The incentive aspect may be brought in at this stage to define a reward for the contractor for finishing on or before the contract completion date and compensation to the customer for finishing late . |
| 27 | Special post boxes will be set up at each walk to receive the postcards . |
| 28 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 29 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 30 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |