Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that at least three coats are applied and that the top and bottom edges are given at least one coat to prevent moisture being absorbed . |
| 2 | Campesinos flee into the controlled areas , find they are welcomed , incorporated into different areas of production and that both health and education needs are given at least minimal attention . |
| 3 | The chances of finding a male tortoiseshell have been calculated at about 200 to 1 . |
| 4 | It is in the member 's interest that these materials are received at least 6 weeks before the programme begins . |
| 5 | Notice of the application for the injunction had been given at about 11 a.m. and the hearing took place after lunch . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 8 | Teachers ' unions have been consulted at both local and national levels . |
| 9 | This is particularly common on motorways where trucks are overtaking at quite high speeds . |
| 10 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 11 | This agrees with the observation that human marathons are won at about half the speed of 100 m sprints . |
| 12 | Windows are like eyes : they are looked at as much as they are looked out of . |
| 13 | Simon Hayday , who 's in his early twenties , had been stabbed at least six times . |
| 14 | Peter Wickins had been stabbed at least four times in the chest . |
| 15 | THE fictional firemen from ITV 's hit series London 's Burning have been looking at how American actors tackled blazes in the movie Backdraft , released this week on CIC Video . |
| 16 | The results of the survey were published in the spring of 1988 : the views expressed in it naturally reflected the fact that the Action Plan 's implementation had been done at almost breakneck speed and had required much effort on the part of FE lecturers . |
| 17 | The igneous complexes described have been dated at c. 2200 m.y . |
| 18 | In the Oxford project , this is done by producing , from a specimen of graphite , carbon ions which are accelerated at very high energy past an array of magnets . |
| 19 | So some animators in Europe are looking at much cheaper ways of making computer graphics . |
| 20 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 21 | So you 're looking at either these chocolates or well you do n't want the premium teabags anyway |
| 22 | Or p because you ca n't take a measurement for , there is a relationship between whatever 's going on , but you 're looking at so many different functions within one actual function . |
| 23 | And we 're looking at more flexible working patterns , be it part-time working , career breaks , flexible hours and term-time working . |
| 24 | Well if he says he wa he wants his wife to have twenty thousand a year , I mean you 're looking at about two hundred and fifty , three hundred thousand gross |
| 25 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 27 | Anything above a hundred thousand , and we 're looking at financial underwriting , we 're looking at basically four times salary . |
| 28 | If they 're offered at very long odds , the statistics demonstrate even more clearly although the odds are long they 're not long enough to make the be fair . |
| 29 | Well they 're expecting at least two cars . |
| 30 | Now we 're sailing at about forty five degrees to the wind . |