Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 2 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 3 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 4 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 7 | Less fabric is taken up when they are placed at this angle , preventing the seamline from reducing and puckering . |
| 8 | These calculations allowed for £2.1 million to be made available for further community developments in Riverside to follow the closure ( all these figures are given at 1986 prices ) . |
| 9 | These displays are given at localized courting places called leks . |
| 10 | Access into the high rack area is normally restricted to the high lift trucks and all other personnel are excluded — except for occasional maintenance and monitoring checks when moveable barriers are erected at each end of the aisle to prevent such entry . |
| 11 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 12 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 13 | Locke 's views on this matter are similar to Gassendi 's , but are developed at greater length . |
| 14 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 15 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 16 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 17 | It 's been announced that seventy jobs are to go at two research establishments — A-E-A Technology is laying off forty maintenance staff at Harwell , and thirty engineers at nearby Culham . |
| 18 | A total of three thousand jobs are to go at British Aerospace in Hertfordshire and the North West . |
| 19 | Thirty more jobs are to go at another plant at Cinderford in the Forest of Dean . |
| 20 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 21 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 22 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |
| 23 | Children who are struggling at this level will also have problems in grasping more complex aspects of text construction , such as the shifts of voice studied in this paper . |
| 24 | It is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day . |
| 25 | Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length . |
| 26 | Many notable marriages have been arranged at these meetings . |
| 27 | This year , the mass has been arranged at Holy Cross Church , Hoylake Road , Birkenhead , and afterwards at Our Lady 's Parish Centre , Park Road North , Birkenhead . |
| 28 | The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times . |
| 29 | ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 30 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |