Example sentences of "be [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine |
| 2 | This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ? |
| 3 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 4 | It is important that assessment methodologies which will provide valid and reliable results are developed at an early stage . |
| 5 | Might this be solely because its mystery and complexity are recognized at an instinctive level ? |
| 6 | A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years . |
| 7 | Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory . |
| 8 | The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage . |
| 9 | A bewildering number of configurations are now available ( Sigma Instruments , 1972 ; Cassat , 1977 ) , but in this Chapter discussion is confined to the basic drive circuits and the potential benefits of more sophisticated drives are examined at a later stage ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 11 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 12 | For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value . |
| 13 | Speech patterns are formed at an early age and are firmly established — part of our way of life , an almost subconscious activity , rather in the same way as chewing or walking . |
| 14 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 15 | ALMOST 1,000 inquiries have already been received at a six- week-old community project . |
| 16 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 17 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 18 | Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace . |
| 19 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 20 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 21 | He had been educated at a progressive , artistic school in the south , with a radical tradition very different ( despite its ostensible similarities ) from the one in which Alix had been reared . |
| 22 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 23 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 24 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 25 | While research dealing with the optimum length of hospital stay is sparse , significantly fewer relapses are seen in patients who complete an inpatient programme and are discharged at a normal weight than in those who leave prematurely . |
| 26 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 27 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 28 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 29 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 30 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |