Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still others have argued that women 's oppression in capitalist societies is to be explained primarily at the ideological level as a result of the prevailing conceptions of passive and dependent femininity . |
| 2 | In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it . |
| 3 | The balance of relief will continue to be given annually at the rate of 4% of the original cost of the building from the tax year in which it is brought into use . |
| 4 | The report also calls for increased funding and a higher profile for the Energy Efficiency Office at the Department of Energy and suggests that energy policy should in future be formulated more at the European Community level rather than the national level . |
| 5 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 6 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 7 | The former are due to be heard together at the beginning of December , a hearing at which the Bar Council will again be represented , and it is clearly too early to predict a result or to consider the implications in detail . |
| 8 | All mortgages by companies of registered land must be registered both at the Companies ' Registry and the Land Registry . |
| 9 | This should be placed prominently at the front of the memorandum in the standard format . |
| 10 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 11 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 12 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 13 | The GATT round is regularly discussed at the Agriculture Council and I expect it to be considered again at the Council on 30 and 31 March . |
| 14 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 15 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 16 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 17 | It says Windows NT revenue will be won primarily at the expense of proprietary systems — which will slip from 29% to 22% revenue market share — and other network operating systems such as OS/2 . |
| 18 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 19 | Education Catering Services are working on two fronts : the production of the quality assurance manual , under the direction of Joanna Carroll , for the central production unit in Ealing ; and the operations manual for school meals which will be installed initially at the mobilisation of the Sunderland school meals contract . |
| 20 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most magnificent mansion to be built here at the turn of the century was Petwood : this by Lady Weighall . |
| 22 | The two sides will also be meeting again at the same venue tomorrow in the first round of the Augustus Barnet Cup . |
| 23 | Two such girders — one for the up line , one for the down — were to be made here at the riverside and floated on the tide , to be fitted into niches in the masonry piers . |
| 24 | One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test . |
| 25 | This general methodological point needs to be made forcefully at the outset since assessments of socialist realism tend to be somewhat peremptory and superficial through lack of a clearly articulated historical and theoretical view of the subject itself . |
| 26 | Salary payments under the terms of this scheme will be made entirely at the discretion of the Company . |
| 27 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 28 | I shall be looking here at the effect of adjusting their published accounts between 1972 and 1991 to allow for inflation . |
| 29 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 30 | As the budget looms , the chancellor seems to be looking again at the feasibility of raising money for the government , by ending the tax relief on mortgages of up to thirty thousand pounds . |