Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
2 This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ?
3 A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years .
4 Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory .
5 The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage .
6 A bewildering number of configurations are now available ( Sigma Instruments , 1972 ; Cassat , 1977 ) , but in this Chapter discussion is confined to the basic drive circuits and the potential benefits of more sophisticated drives are examined at a later stage ( Chapter 5 ) .
7 It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors .
8 For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value .
9 Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace .
10 While research dealing with the optimum length of hospital stay is sparse , significantly fewer relapses are seen in patients who complete an inpatient programme and are discharged at a normal weight than in those who leave prematurely .
11 More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate .
12 It involves transformation of data so that they are reported at a comparable geographical scale , projection and set of geographical units .
13 Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate .
14 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 .
15 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 ?
16 Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent .
17 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% !
18 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 .
19 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
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 . ’
26 The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford .
27 In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted .
28 If evaluation is defined as assessing how effectively needs are met at a given cost , then precise identification of needs is obviously paramount , as the Guideline on Evaluation notes , most emphatically : ‘ Without proper identification of need , evaluation is meaningless ’ .
29 Even if the two lists are merged at a later date , the historical traditionally positive attitudes toward the European languages may continue to permeate the philosophy underlying the education system ( including the curriculum and examinations ) .
30 It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) .
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