Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 2 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 3 | Now that 's what I 'd prefer , but in every , you know the majority go against me and they want it in a as I say I I would , I think that it 'd be better placed at the top . |
| 4 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 5 | With Asians the picture in Leeds appears more straightforward : they tended to be less involved at every stage . |
| 6 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 7 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 8 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 9 | He will be best remembered at The Foster 's Oval for his faultless administration of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' programme . |
| 10 | ‘ The two new models of mobile working platforms can be quickly deployed at a work site without the need for scaffolding , ladders or intermediate staging . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry this account has n't been paid yet , but any payments by the Parish Council have to be formally authorised at a meeting . |
| 12 | It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment . |
| 13 | It 'll be formally unveiled at the Berlin Motor show next month . |
| 14 | The committee deferred a decision on the application , and the matter will be further considered at a later date . |
| 15 | When it was new the church was attached to a monastery , the cloisters of which can be still seen at the back ( reached from Via Corridoni ) . |
| 16 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 17 | Hence a new modification can be thoroughly inspected at the design stage to ensure a high degree of success before manufacture and installation . |
| 18 | It promised to present its ‘ strategic concept for continuity and renewal ’ at its next meeting at the end of the year and that it would all be thoroughly discussed at the party congress next May . |
| 19 | Bad or indifferent starters and main courses often turn out to be partly redeemed at the pudding stage . |
| 20 | Standards should not be hidden away for internal use only , but should be clearly displayed at the point of service delivery . |
| 21 | Viewers should be clearly warned at the beginning and end of all advertising breaks . |
| 22 | The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven . |
| 23 | These toggles can be automatically reset at the next carriage-return by setting the " Off at CR " option in the Printer Editor to " Yes " . |
| 24 | Like the stroke patient who has received hospital treatment , the head-injured patient may still be fairly disabled at the time he is discharged . |
| 25 | If you do , you will assuredly be severely handled at the trial and it is not unlikely your evidence will be disbelieved . |
| 26 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 27 | The suspect must appear and may be legally represented at the various hearings before the magistrates , though the utility of this safeguard is reduced by the breadth of the statutory language justifying continued incarceration . |
| 28 | Mention has already been made of the significance of national trends in age structure , but it can be seen that these effects can be substantially reinforced at the regional and local level through migration . |
| 29 | At present , some centres use photographic records to follow patients with clinically atypical naevi , on the assumptions that only lesions that show evidence of progressive change need to be excised and that such change can be clinically detected at a time when evolving melanomas are thin and curable by local excision . |
| 30 | If the contingent environmental events are then altered so that certain ways of performing the skill are preferred to others , then some ways of performing the behaviour will be selectively reinforced at the expense of others . |