Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations . |
| 2 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 3 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 4 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 5 | Humboldt Penguin chicks are reared regularly at the park , and in the breeding season some may be seen in the specially designed rearing unit alongside their enclosure . |
| 6 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 7 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 8 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 9 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 10 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 11 | Tests are carried out at the United States Department of Energy 's site in Nevada under the terms of the 1958 agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 12 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |
| 13 | These strange creatures are carried eastwards at a depth of about 700 feet by the great ocean-wide current known as the Gulf Stream . |
| 14 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 15 | Harris and his colleagues are looking specifically at the charred remains of cereal grains , identifying the different characteristics of wild and cultivated grains . |
| 16 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 17 | It seems Rover is now keeping faith with old faithfuls but analysts are looking more at the motives rather than the marketing . |
| 18 | We are looking seriously at the costs of such in-house items as car leasing . |
| 19 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 20 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |
| 21 | This planned to reduce expenditure by $S2,200 million ( US$180 million — US dollar conversions are made here at the unofficial rate US$1.00=£S11.4 ) . |
| 22 | Over half of these are made either at the scene of the crime , the scene of arrest or the defendant 's home . |
| 23 | Membranes are used both at the interface with the bulk sample and between the biolayer and the transducer ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts . |
| 25 | Thus we are told right at the start of Isaac 's frailty and vulnerability . |
| 26 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 27 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 28 | I want to consider whether the way in which environmental impact assessments are drawn up at the moment is satisfactory . |
| 29 | In the basic form ( shown in rows ( b ) and ( c ) of Figure 2.2 ) , zeros are shifted in at one end while bits are lost at the other ; in the second form ( called rotate or circular shift ) bits shifted out of one end of the pattern are shifted in at the other . |
| 30 | One of the WRAC Weapons Instructors looks on as the weapons are handed in at the armoury . |