Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | These displays are given at localized courting places called leks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 9 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The tidal range in this estuary is large ( 7m at spring tides ) and large sandbanks are exposed at low tide . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 14 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | The position of aircraft has also been clarified at common law . |
| 17 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 18 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 19 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 20 | Following the announcement earlier this year that VCH publishing group had decided to ‘ terminate the employment ’ of Dr Andreas Papadakis , hitherto managing director and former owner of Academy Group , London , with immediate effect , a new appointment has been made at senior level . |
| 21 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 22 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 23 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 24 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 25 | This method hopes to get the best of both worlds : stocks are transferred at variable cost ( good for decision making ) , and profits can be made by each division ( good for motivation ) . |
| 26 | You 're told at annual appraisal week . |
| 27 | Karen there 's no need , no need , you 're needed at bloody home . |
| 28 | Many a harassed fixture secretary has been helped at short notice over the past nine years ! |
| 29 | This is the balance sheet in which both inventories and long-term assets are valued at current replacement cost . |
| 30 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |