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 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 .
5 Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips .
6 These displays are given at localized courting places called leks .
7 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 .
8 A total of three thousand jobs are to go at British Aerospace in Hertfordshire and the North West .
9 In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times .
13 ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University .
14 Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit .
15 Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects .
16 As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins .
17 Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust .
18 The tidal range in this estuary is large ( 7m at spring tides ) and large sandbanks are exposed at low tide .
19 Crash site is on mudflats that are exposed at low tide some 150 yards seaward of The Old Neptune public house , Whitstable , North Kent , and part of the aircraft 's bomb load was destroyed by an Ordnance Disposal team in November 1991 .
20 Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre .
21 They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation .
22 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 .
23 Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown .
24 Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times .
25 He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton .
26 Although early and middle Iron-Age pottery has been located at various points , there is no evidence for any late Iron-Age settlement underlying the town , where the earliest levels are apparently military .
27 ‘ There are indications of scorching and the presence of particles of smokeless powder suggest a firearm wound , the weapon having been discharged at close range . ’
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms .
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