Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 2 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 3 | The treatment was investigated in a co-operative study involving many surgeons : by 1950 some 1800 cases had been reported , leaving little doubt that treatment had been found which at least delayed the progress of an otherwise intractable cancer . |
| 4 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 5 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 6 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 7 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 8 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 9 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 10 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 11 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 12 | To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change . |
| 13 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 14 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 15 | These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them . |
| 16 | It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience . |
| 17 | You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter . |
| 18 | Perhaps the survivors of a stranding are less likely to be stranded themselves at a later date . |
| 19 | CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible . |
| 20 | British Columbia 's powerful timber industry — led by MacMillan Bloedel , the company that will be doing much of the cutting in Clayoquot — feigned relief at being given anything at all while bemoaning the loss of jobs that the mild restrictions would cause . |
| 21 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 22 | Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road . |
| 23 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 24 | Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time . |
| 25 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 26 | In reality , however , even when the electrons are sent one at a time , the fringes still appear . |
| 27 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 28 | We have excellent food — almost twice as much as we can eat is offered us at every meal — and we have well heated rooms , which is indeed a blessing , when you compare the virtual absence of heating at the Peking Languages Institute where we work . |
| 29 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 30 | In the following text pages , each step is taken one at a time and ‘ what happened ’ and why is detailed . |