Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 2 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 3 | Money spent on goods and services is sometimes the only expenditure included , on other occasions interest charges and transfer payments to companies and individuals are added to arrive at total current expenditure . |
| 4 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 5 | Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price . |
| 6 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 7 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 8 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 9 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 10 | That 's what they 're they 're employed to do at any particular site , but they do n't hold total responsibility do they ? |
| 11 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 12 | Perhaps it may even spur them to have a rethink ( miracles have been known to happen at this time of year ) and remove the threat of closure not just from St Bart 's but many other wonderful facilities up and down the country . |
| 13 | It has n't been an easy year for the mother of two grown-up children , as anxious pet-owners have been known to telephone at four o' clock in the morning to ask about their cats or dogs . |
| 14 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 15 | Each business area now has its own quality improvement manager , a Quality Strategy Group has been appointged to look at long-term policy making , and corrective action teams are busily at work . |
| 16 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 17 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 18 | If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field . |
| 19 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 20 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 21 | Although short sticks can be used to jab at close range , longer sticks and chains become almost useless when there is no room to swing them in , or against a very close opponent . |
| 22 | Here we are concerned with a form of corporate provision that can also be used to provide at one and the same time a safety net and a reward for initiative . |
| 23 | ‘ Saxon and Norman debris and post-holes must be preserved hidden at all costs ’ stated the developer … doubtless with a correct note of scorn in his voice . |
| 24 | In this chapter we have been concerned with interpreting patterns of variation in speech communities with reference to the norms that can be shown to exist at varying levels of abstraction and generality . |
| 25 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 26 | ( ii ) Pupils should be enabled to compose at greater length than they can manage to write down by themselves , by : • dictating to their teacher or another adult , into a tape recorder ; or • working with other children ; or • using a word processor . |
| 27 | Timed tickets in operation : visitors will be asked to wait at busy periods . |
| 28 | Further , the body will be assumed to oscillate at one angular frequency ο . |
| 29 | Families and friends should be encouraged to visit at any time . |
| 30 | In March 1991 , although Aquino confirmed that Imelda Marcos continued to be banned from the country , she suggested that she would be allowed to return at some point in order to face corruption charges . |