Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrators responsible for other areas of enterprise in the Department of Trade and Industry were asked to look at how the OSO ‘ culture ’ could be embraced in formulating wide-ranging plans to enhance Britain 's role as a trading nation . |
| 2 | Tape speed is fixed to run at 3 ¾ips , which is twice normal cassette speed , but by engaging the tape speed select switch it can be altered to run up to 20% faster or slower , or take its speed from a SMPTE controller . |
| 3 | Many people believe additional research is needed to look at this earlier part of the process . |
| 4 | Rather than try to disentangle the scores of relationships examined between animals and plants in this area by putting them into categories of predation or dispersal mechanism , an attempt is made to look at the relationships of particular taxonomic groups of animals and their food plants . |
| 5 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Amsterdam-based networking and electrical engineering group Getronics NV says it sees no evidence of market growth , and assuming no major acquisitions occur , its business will grow hardly any faster than in 1992 , when net profit rose 14% ; its investment is expected to remain at the same level as in 1992 , and cash flow is expected to develop on a comparable basis . |
| 6 | If an employee is required to work at a new location and the distance between the old and new places of work is short enough to make commuting possible , organisations may not require employees to move their homes . |
| 7 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 8 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 9 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 10 | The timebase was set to record at 15 second intervals . |
| 11 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 12 | or Civil Defence work were asked to meet at the village hall . |
| 13 | This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy . |
| 14 | The program stack is initialised to begin at HIMEM and , because of this , you can not change the value of HIMEM when there is anything on the stack . |
| 15 | World wheat consumption is forecast to stagnate at 570m tonnes . |
| 16 | The Sunday performance of John 's Gospel is scheduled to start at 6.30pm , with tickets available at the door . |
| 17 | At that stage , the pressures for full membership are bound to mount at home and overseas . |
| 18 | Typically the means of issuing commands using this system has been via a window-icon-mouse-pop-up menu ( WIMP ) display , where the mouse is used to point at icons or menus in windows ( which are subsets of the screen working area ) . |
| 19 | — The public inquiry is expected to last at least two months and three pre-inquiry meetings have been held two in Northallerton and one in Marton , Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams . |
| 21 | The total capital available in period u+1 is therefore the savings of the preceding generation of workers : or ( since the population is assumed to grow at rate ( ) , . |
| 22 | But this stupendous growth rate is starting to slow down and world population is expected to stabilize at around ten billion less than 60 years from now . |
| 23 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
| 24 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 25 | The group is invited to start at a common point : response to a specific trigger — a research quote , a statement about opinions to be completed , a range of factors to be ranked for importance , a role play . |
| 26 | The result is that the relay RLA is heard to click at the end of the timing period , but the timer re-starts as it is caused to re-commence timing for a further period . |
| 27 | This is in agreement with both crystallographic data and recent NMR studies where a B II junction is found to occur at a base pair mismatch site ( 9 ) . |
| 28 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 29 | GDP was set to grow at around 3 per cent until 1997 , with unemployment declining slowly from 6.9 per cent in 1992 to 5.3 per cent in 1997 . |
| 30 | Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular . |