Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mustoe should be fit after being withdrawn at half-time on Saturday when he complained of a groin injury . |
| 2 | A win today would put pressure on the top three , but Newcastle will regard the draw as a safe option after being held at home by Middlesbrough last weekend . |
| 3 | Paperboy Ben Cosstick was back on his delivery rounds today , just forty eight hours after being held at gunpoint during a robbery at a newsagents in Bletchley . |
| 4 | By Echo reporter A BRITON has been jailed in Iraq after being arrested at gunpoint on the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 5 | The Teleworking Project is designed to test the feasibility of being employed at home but with a high-tech link to a central office base . |
| 6 | Furthermore , this comparison becomes even more shocking when it is remembered that the population at risk of being killed at work is less than half those who could be ‘ murdered ’ . |
| 7 | Previously , visitors to HQ , including myself , had commented on the rather unwelcoming aspect of the reception/enquiries area and the feeling of being kept at bay from ‘ their ’ society . |
| 8 | The idea of being received at court for the first time since the childhood marriage , at first caused Anne much excitement . |
| 9 | Our , most of our rules and most of our laws are made by people who are frightened of losing their property , and not the sort of people who are frightened of being mugged at night . |
| 10 | We were to fly across , which suited me , as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea . |
| 11 | Time and effort must be taken to break its dependency on the other dog and increase its attachment towards the owner ; short walks without the other dog , short periods of being left at home by itself , perhaps feeding them in separate areas . |
| 12 | Wannabe Ian Bothams should order Harry 's Challenge — a giant haddock fillet ( £9.95 ) : the fish tastes bouncy and fresh in spite of being frozen at sea and transported from Grimsby , and there 's a serving of hideously verdant mushy peas on the side . |
| 13 | After a late breakfast and a discussion of the programme , , and I explored Jaipur , the ‘ city of palaces ’ in the late afternoon , before being entertained at home by . |
| 14 | From these equations we can solve for the prices p x , and p y as functions of the wage , which we take to be fixed at unity . |
| 15 | The making and implementing of CNAA policy for the introduction of new subject areas and the extension of established ones were therefore constantly faced with a range of problems which had to be faced at officer and board levels , and in debate in committee and Council . |
| 16 | However , all salt had to be treated at source and it had to be consumed regularly , and though there was some success in parts of South America , these conditions could seldom be met . |
| 17 | To influence the decision in your favour , contact the planning department to find out whether an application is to be heard at committee or dealt with under delegated powers . |
| 18 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 19 | If the system 's charter allowed for a bank governor to be shot at dawn for every month the inflation rate exceeded 1 per cent , it might prove even more counter-inflationary than the Bundesbank . |
| 20 | You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife . |
| 21 | It was seven at night and the commercial had to be presented at breakfast the next day . |
| 22 | ( b ) An input/output operation is called for ; for example , transfer the character at store address X to the typewriter and print it , or read the next character punched on a piece of paper tape and transfer it to the store , to be deposited at address X. |
| 23 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 24 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 25 | From being the Mecca of young Chinese who wished to ‘ awaken ’ their nation , Japan had , in little more than two decades , become an aggressor to be kept at bay . |
| 26 | I thought I was too clever to be kept at bay by his all-pals-together manliness , but I was wrong , Harry , so wrong it 's almost laughable . ’ |
| 27 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 28 | Subject to any medical recommendations , inmates were to be kept at work according to their capacity and should not receive any remuneration for their labour . |
| 29 | But he had to be kept at arm 's length , because of Victoria , and because of the other three nurses . |
| 30 | Thus stocks need to be stated at cost or , if lower , at net realisable value . |