Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 4 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 5 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 6 | Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast . |
| 7 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 8 | The houses are arranged around at least one courtyard , so most rooms have windows on two or three sides , and therefore are light and airy . |
| 9 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 10 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 11 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 12 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 13 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 14 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 15 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 16 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 17 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 18 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 19 | Elections are carried out at grass-roots assemblies , directed by members of the local Popular Militias … |
| 20 | The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 23 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 24 | Simple tests to see that your baby 's sight is developing as it should be are carried out at her normal child health clinic checks , but a detailed examination by an eye specialist wo n't be given until a child is between three or four years old . |
| 25 | Environmental Audits Environmental audits are carried out at our operating sites to ensure compliance with all statutory requirements and operation in accordance with this policy 's objectives . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The four major subsystems are carried out at different locations , by different personnel , and therefore formed ‘ natural ’ boundaries . |
| 28 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |