Example sentences of "be [verb] at a " in BNC.

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1 They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies .
2 Forest products are gathered at a level which does not affect the harvest next year be it fruit , timber , grasses , wild honey or medicinal plants .
3 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
4 The positioning of electric equipment is important because of possible splashing with waterjets ; therefore , it is imperative that such equipment is specially protected and that outlet sockets are placed at a level where there is no danger of their coming into contact with water .
5 This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ?
6 Since slides are treated at a number of different temperatures in the protocols , it is convenient if a sufficient number of water baths and ovens can be maintained at these temperatures without the need for continuous readjustment .
7 Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) .
8 My parents still do n't know what course I am pursuing at a college of education .
9 The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set .
10 The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild .
11 Sixty two jobs are to go at a milk depot .
12 A hundred and forty jobs are to go at a brewery distribution centre in Swindon .
13 A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years .
14 Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory .
15 As with chariots , when you are firing at a War Wagon with a stone thrower , or any other weapon which has a template to represent its effect , it is possible to hit the horses , the War Wagon , or the crew depending on the position of the template .
16 The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage .
17 A bewildering number of configurations are now available ( Sigma Instruments , 1972 ; Cassat , 1977 ) , but in this Chapter discussion is confined to the basic drive circuits and the potential benefits of more sophisticated drives are examined at a later stage ( Chapter 5 ) .
18 Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards .
19 The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m .
20 Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood .
21 So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " .
22 Policies that directly or indirectly impinge upon the objectives of the railways are formulated at a number of different sites within the state administration , and co-ordination between them is not always assured .
23 It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors .
24 For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value .
25 Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) .
26 ALMOST 1,000 inquiries have already been received at a six- week-old community project .
27 Radiogenic Ag , Te , Nd and Sm are trapped at a distance of about 50 metres from the reactor core — probably transported there by convection in aqueous solutions before enough bitumen had been generated to precipitate uraninite and trap them in its crystal lattice .
28 Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition .
29 Only one main branch is permitted , along which shoots above branch level are spaced at a minimum of 15 centimetre intervals .
30 Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises .
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