Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because students from other parts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are joined at each of the four campuses by a growing number of overseas students , reflecting the reputation of Northern Ireland for offering warm hospitality to its visitors and the tradition of the University of Ulster as a host to students from other countries . |
| 2 | On 29 May anti-aircraft gunners submitted claims for a Ju88 probably destroyed , but it seems likely that they had in fact been firing at one of the Italian Fiats . |
| 3 | Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house . |
| 4 | Other aspects are looked at such as packaging food and irradiation interactions . |
| 5 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 6 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 7 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 8 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 9 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 11 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 12 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 13 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 14 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 15 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 16 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 17 | The 60MHz Pentium has been rated at 58.3 in the SPECint92 integer performance rating and 52.2 in the SPECfp92 floating-point rating . |
| 18 | The 60MHz Pentium has been rated at 58.3 in the SPECint92 integer performance rating and 52.2 in the SPECfp92 floating-point rating . |
| 19 | He had not been seen at all at his office . |
| 20 | The opposition thoughtfully provided a batting line-up of stroke-playing dashers , and bowlers that could easily have been selected at random from a passing Delhi omnibus . |
| 21 | The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) . |
| 22 | From Assumptions 1–5 in Section 2 , the expected utility of a union member can be written as Here represents the employment probability and represents the probability of being unemployed , where workers are selected at random from the entire pool of workers in the sector ( because the closed shop is not legal ) . |
| 23 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 24 | The longer serving members of the committee will remember a series of booklets on mental health , mental handicap and physical handicap across the county and we 're looking at that in the context of the major changes now and seeing whether those should be repeated . |
| 25 | But you 're looking at this from an inset point of view are n't you ? |
| 26 | Th th th if y if you 're looking at this from the Communist Party perspective , I , I think one i i i i it seems a reasonably sensible s s strategic choice t go for the kind of programme because the alternative would be collectivization . |
| 27 | This is the second in our new series of twelve programmes on opportunities in education , in which we 're looking at some of the ideas in action in schools today . |
| 28 | We 're not looking at that point of view we 're looking at more like working together to find a solution . |
| 29 | But do you find that children really understand what they 're doing at all in any sensible way ? |
| 30 | The depletion rate over the US has been measured at 4 to 5 per cent since 1978 . |