Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 2 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 3 | The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times . |
| 4 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 5 | Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre . |
| 6 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 7 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 8 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 9 | The chips are targeted at embedded controls , portable and desktop computers , high-end fault-tolerant machines and supercomputers . |
| 10 | They are targeted at professional users , multimedia and natural data applications , and will be available in Europe from April 5 , though two weeks earlier in the UK . |
| 11 | Even if introns from different species are located at identical sites within genes , there may or may not be an intronic ORF present . |
| 12 | It is no coincidence that a number of smaller mints are located at royal estate-centres , and there was one quite important mint at the palace — that is , within the king 's peripatetic household . |
| 13 | They guarantee you a known minimum cash fund and/or pension on your retirement and , while the guaranteed amount is not usually very high , bonuses are added at regular intervals , according to how the investments in the fund perform . |
| 14 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |
| 15 | If you get a chance , watch how things are done at professional yards , where time really does mean money . |
| 16 | In case of trouble when handling prisoners , alarms are positioned at strategic points around the prison . |
| 17 | It has two vertical rows of three teeth and these are positioned at right angles to the shank , to give maximum leverage in use . |
| 18 | ( e ) That , when a subcontractor will be on site for an extensive period , detailed interim accounts are prepared at monthly intervals . |
| 19 | Detectives say they are looking at possible links with recent assaults on women in Oxford . |
| 20 | Archaeologists are beginning to realize this and are looking at alternative approaches , seeing sites as part of the landscape and related to one another , something which has been advocated by students of leys and Earth Mysteries for many years . |
| 21 | Consultants are looking at various sites and will report to the council in November . |
| 22 | A Ford spokesman said : ‘ We are looking at various aspects of our high performance models , not just the hot hatches … it would be fair to say that we are being a lot more discreet about the badging and ‘ dressing up ’ of some models now . ’ |
| 23 | First , however , some general points to check when you are looking at non-ELT materials . |
| 24 | ‘ We are looking at Continental institutions such as pension funds which take a more long-term view or are more entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 25 | The Metropolitan Police are co-ordinating the survey and six other forces , Avon and Somerset , Devon and Cornwall , Northumbria , North Wales , Sussex and South Yorkshire , are looking at specific police roles . |
| 26 | And of course we are looking at other products all the time . |
| 27 | Target Europe are looking at new ways to obtain sponsorship deals for sportsmen from the point of view of what competitors can market rather than who will offer financial support , sponsorship being a business arrangement , not a charity . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We are looking at frightening levels of loss which an independent company could not sustain . ’ |
| 29 | In Ujong Kulon , Indonesia , we are looking at novel microorganisms which might be useful to man . |
| 30 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |