Example sentences of "to be [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … The second matter applies particularly to private sector , fee-paying schools where , as the Financial Secretary knows , there is often an arrangement for the children of staff in these schools to be taught at less than the commercial fee in other schools . |
| 2 | In the case of summary proceedings for recovery of land , Ord 24 , r 4 , any person not named as a respondent may apply to be joined at any stage of the proceedings on the question whether an order for possession should be made . |
| 3 | Impeccable etiquette is required from everyone ; discipline and good manners , have to be observed at all times . |
| 4 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 5 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 6 | Aware of the strength of public opinion , Mrs Aquino ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half mast in a conciliatory gesture . |
| 7 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
| 8 | Now , of course , there was nothing to be heard at all , nothing to be seen but the sudden , wheeling pallor of one more set of headlights taking the curve in the Silcaster road , far beyond Aurae Phiala . |
| 9 | The necessary appearance of friendship had to be maintained at all times , and patronage continued to flow in the direction of the town of Perth from which the unfortunate Mr. Robinson came . |
| 10 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 11 | We fit the torch again ; we do n't want to be disqualified at this late point . |
| 12 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 13 | ( It will have to be moved at this time in any case ) . |
| 14 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |
| 15 | It was a kind of obligation to those organisations such as Ultra and other secret sources which supplied the highly sensitive and closely guarded intelligence required for an operation by the S.A.S. to be mounted at all . ’ |
| 16 | There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price . |
| 17 | In Search of a Past affects not to be written at all — so much as researched , recorded and compiled . |
| 18 | ‘ You do not appear to be foxed at all , ’ she explained . |
| 19 | ‘ But I can say this — the long-term interests of the club have to be served at all times . |
| 20 | For the sake of safety and obedience to orders , ought they to be employed at all ? |
| 21 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 22 | Maggie 's temper and training did n't seem to be helping at all at the moment . |
| 23 | The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries . |
| 24 | The decision faced by firms as to which intermediary to use , and the policies to be adopted at this point , are critical to the firm 's future in the market . |
| 25 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 26 | ‘ And after that it will be the turn of your gallery and your boy to be destroyed at any time of our choosing . ’ |
| 27 | That judgment will have to be made at that time . |
| 28 | The point of this distinction between the social ( the particular ) and the artistic ( the general ) is precisely to deny there is any ‘ real ’ distinction to be made at all . |
| 29 | Nonetheless certain advances can be made at the national level , and given that politics and governmental power are still largely national in scope certain advances must be made at that level if they are to be made at all . |
| 30 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |