Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these equations we can solve for the prices p x , and p y as functions of the wage , which we take to be fixed at unity . |
| 2 | The making and implementing of CNAA policy for the introduction of new subject areas and the extension of established ones were therefore constantly faced with a range of problems which had to be faced at officer and board levels , and in debate in committee and Council . |
| 3 | However , all salt had to be treated at source and it had to be consumed regularly , and though there was some success in parts of South America , these conditions could seldom be met . |
| 4 | To influence the decision in your favour , contact the planning department to find out whether an application is to be heard at committee or dealt with under delegated powers . |
| 5 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 6 | If the system 's charter allowed for a bank governor to be shot at dawn for every month the inflation rate exceeded 1 per cent , it might prove even more counter-inflationary than the Bundesbank . |
| 7 | You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife . |
| 8 | It was seven at night and the commercial had to be presented at breakfast the next day . |
| 9 | ( b ) An input/output operation is called for ; for example , transfer the character at store address X to the typewriter and print it , or read the next character punched on a piece of paper tape and transfer it to the store , to be deposited at address X. |
| 10 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 11 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 12 | From being the Mecca of young Chinese who wished to ‘ awaken ’ their nation , Japan had , in little more than two decades , become an aggressor to be kept at bay . |
| 13 | I thought I was too clever to be kept at bay by his all-pals-together manliness , but I was wrong , Harry , so wrong it 's almost laughable . ’ |
| 14 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 15 | Subject to any medical recommendations , inmates were to be kept at work according to their capacity and should not receive any remuneration for their labour . |
| 16 | But he had to be kept at arm 's length , because of Victoria , and because of the other three nurses . |
| 17 | Thus stocks need to be stated at cost or , if lower , at net realisable value . |
| 18 | Work in progress relating to long term contracts is to be stated at cost plus attributable profit earned to date less provisions for anticipated losses and progress payments received . |
| 19 | Work in progress relating to long term contracts is to be stated at cost plus attributable profit earned to date less provisions for anticipated losses and progress payments received . |
| 20 | I 'm going to be engaged at Christmas and married next year . |
| 21 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 22 | The most obvious change appears to be an even greater enthusiasm to be called at Question time ; one Member told me that he , like others was tabling a lot more Questions for oral answer to try to secure a television slot , and the Speaker confirmed that television had made Members generally anxious to be called , both for Questions and in debates at prime time . |
| 23 | One or more levels were put in from the side of Levers Water to carry out a shallow sub-surface investigation of veins which appeared to be untried , or suspected to be covered at outcrop . |
| 24 | Performance indicators ( increasingly referred to in the current climate as ‘ success criteria ’ ) were to be decided at school level , according to what each school felt to be useful areas to monitor . |
| 25 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 26 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 27 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 28 | People had to be visited at home and in hospital . |
| 29 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 30 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |