Example sentences of "is [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Patten -- the Education Secretary and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon -- is recovering at home after a week in hospital for tests on a viral infection . |
| 2 | Comedian Les Dawson ( above ) is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation . |
| 3 | The other , d , is a distance from a node 's weights to an input instance , and is calculated at run time . |
| 4 | The use of the Command Line Interpreter is explained at Appendix D to your Z88 manual and in the " Operating System Interface " section of this manual . |
| 5 | However , the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 has been made under the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( The procedure for making these orders is explained at paragraph 16–40 below ) . |
| 6 | The problem is compounded at present by the bureaucracy of parole , which results in decisions being anything up to six or eight months late . |
| 7 | The pixel value in the raw image closest to the computed point is placed at location x , y in the registered image . |
| 8 | It is placed at eye level with one eye occluded . |
| 9 | ‘ Only one other Scottish constituency features in the top 50 and that is Aberdeen North which is placed at number 37 . |
| 10 | Food is consumed at home , in restaurants or burger bars ( etc ) , or eaten " on the hoof " from takeaways . |
| 11 | The station is situated at Bridge Farm , off the A153 west of Tattershall . |
| 12 | The water is heated at night and , if not used , stays hot during the day . |
| 13 | Classification of functional gut disorders is proliferating at present , but there is much overlap of various functional symptom clusters and labelling these does not necessarily prove a common cause and may lend a false validity to the diagnosis . |
| 14 | Nothing about it is taught at school and we are criticised abroad for not repenting of the war . ’ |
| 15 | But such arguments are not applied to what is taught at school , though if we were sincere followers of J. S. Mill we should apply them . |
| 16 | With stocks and shares ( including investment trust shares ) and unit trusts , tax at 25 per cent is stopped at source when companies pay dividends and unit trusts distribute their income . |
| 17 | The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters . |
| 18 | If the body is to remain at home it is advisable for the room to remain cool . |
| 19 | Although the concept is proven at club level , it has so far never found favour in international competition . |
| 20 | In this instrument differences of pitch are obtained , not by the use of valves , as in the horn and trumpet , but by varying the length of the vibrating column of air by means of a movable slide , the position of which is altered at will by the player . |
| 21 | H. isolonche infection is diagnosed at necropsy by the finding of caecal nodules containing adult worms , and if necessary , confirmed microscopically by examination of the spicules . |
| 22 | That controlling function is an attribute of the life force , and when that is withdrawn at death the whole complex biochemical organization falls into decay . |
| 23 | For not only is maintenance now much less frequent , all scheduled depot attention is given at night or at weekends or between peak diagrams . |
| 24 | A full stomach makes a person want to defecate , so if a laxative is given at night , your child may go to the loo between a good breakfast and school . |
| 25 | An explanation of how variables are stored is given at Annex E. |
| 26 | In the old gold mining regions of Min Sherice and Gojas scientists are finding an unusually high incidence of mental retardation , and other congenital conditions , and the finger of suspicion is pointed at methyl mercury that 's accumulated in the soil and in the ground water . |
| 27 | A standard KPMG work programme as lead advisor in a public company transaction is contained at Section 1109.4 . |
| 28 | Dazel , based on a distributed client/server architecture , is targeted at MS-DOS and Unix platforms , starting with Sun Sparcstations . |
| 29 | The new family of products , SeaChange 4 , is targeted at software applications developers for Unix and MS-DOS systems . |
| 30 | The Evolution V PC is targeted at system integrators and resellers and uses the 60MHz processor but only a 32-bit bus . |