Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] at [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | That 's what they 're they 're employed to do at any particular site , but they do n't hold total responsibility do they ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Families and friends should be encouraged to visit at any time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 12 | 1.1 You are employed in the service of the Council initially at … but following consultation and mutual agreement with the appropriate trade union you may be required to service at another of the Council 's establishments . |
| 13 | The National Industrial Relations Court held that Mr Claydon was not , in fact , redundant as , under the terms of his contract , he could be required to work at any of the Authority 's establishments . |
| 14 | Previously , Bulgarian citizens had been allowed to own at most one apartment , a country home and a garage , and they had been allowed to sell their property only at fixed prices through the local state authorities . |
| 15 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 16 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 17 | Peter Williams had the sort of nice neat blazer that everyone can remember being forced to wear at some traumatic stage in their lives , while the commentators and summarisers , who all sounded about 70 , had a comfortingly narrow command of the English language . |
| 18 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 19 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 20 | Many people believe additional research is needed to look at this earlier part of the process . |
| 21 | Regrettably but perhaps inevitably , the ambivalence of feeling and thought which is bound to exist at any time of change has been seized upon by those who can profit from it . |
| 22 | It is proposed to look at these two issues in turn . |
| 23 | It is an essential part of grieving that they be allowed to fall at some point , without restraint , if the healing process is to start . |
| 24 | Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular . |
| 25 | Well another survey was done to look at these people at the top and see how they 're coping , and a big surprise . |
| 26 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 27 | Mainly she resisted the urge in case Suzie should slip past unnoticed , although once or twice she was drawn to pause at some unusual display , particularly of traditional Danish knitwear or shops specialising in the typical and beautiful amber jewellery for which the country was famed . |
| 28 | In 1986 she was invited to exhibit at several French museums , including the famous Musée Fabre , Montpelier . |
| 29 | Marius Steen might be out too , but he was bound to return at some stage , and the more Charles thought about the urgency of the situation , the more he was determined to meet the man . |
| 30 | Although this was predicted to occur at some unspecified date in the future , belief in it was strengthened by the promise of a Messiah who would defeat Israel 's enemies and restore the nation to its former glory . |