Example sentences of "be [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major variations are made in foaming levels , which can be altered at will , entirely independently of the basic cleaning power of the product . |
| 2 | Rather than lay an etch-resist pattern directly onto the copper foil of a board , it is much more convenient to prepare artwork on a polyester film where the opaque transfers and crepe papers decals can be altered at will . |
| 3 | The shape , style and content of these items can be altered at will as can their position but without ever reaching for scissors or glue . |
| 4 | In the society portrayed in the novel the printed codex is obsolete ; books are distributed on diskette which can be altered at will , heralding the end of the definitive text . |
| 5 | And such ‘ modularization ’ should be undertaken at school level by the teachers themselves , with advice and support , rather than being provided by outside ‘ curriculum development ’ agencies . |
| 6 | Shampooing can be undertaken at home using a good quality wool detergent , with perhaps a cup of vinegar in a dilute solution , which should be applied gently with a sponge or cloth after the rug has been cleansed . |
| 7 | Teacher training can also be undertaken at university departments of education . |
| 8 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 9 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 10 | Schools frequently hold meetings to talk with parents about changes in the curriculum or the ways that help can be given at home to help children 's learning . |
| 11 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 12 | The other site referred to is presently subject to negotiations between a local authority in the North West of England and the BMC , and due to the need to avoid jeopardising negotiations between the council and the present landowner , no further details can be given at present . |
| 13 | This needs to be given at birth , or as soon as possible afterwards . |
| 14 | Again , consideration must be given at roof levels , where changes in height occur to ensure that a fire spreading vertically will not spread across or onto adjacent roofs , and continue the fire elsewhere . |
| 15 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 16 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 17 | What they had in common was that they were all perceived by the development officers as requiring a good deal of care in order to be sustained at home , and as not having all those care needs filled by either informal or statutory carers . |
| 18 | For example , fire risk clients could be sustained at home if they had 24-hour-a-day surveillance . |
| 19 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 20 | Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher both declared in early August that asylum applications from east Europeans should be disallowed , because they could no longer legitimately claim to be persecuted at home . |
| 21 | Rather a text of the play is my principal experience of it , in the case of the scholarly Arden edition complete with a daunting textual apparatus which can be examined at leisure . |
| 22 | In addition 20–50 records of graduating students will be listed at Christmas and Easter and approximately 70() in July . |
| 23 | The curriculum allows a wide choice of special interests and provides for the dissertation to be completed at home if appropriate . |
| 24 | He will finalise his team during the next 24 hours and Derry 's preparations will be completed at training sessions scheduled for Monday and Wednesday . |
| 25 | Candidates for election to the National Executive should note that nominations should also be received at HQ by FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 7 , 1992 . |
| 26 | If there is any general view in any quarter that the interest on special damages is in any event to be calculated at half-rate , when the losses do not continue from accident to trial , then I think that this is wrong and should not hereafter be followed . |
| 27 | In February 1991 Laos signed an agreement with the Soviet Union under which future trade with the Soviet Union would be calculated at world market prices , with payment in hard currency . |
| 28 | A farrier could be heard at work in an empty box on the north side and the smell of singeing hoof wafted across the yard . |
| 29 | To influence the decision in your favour , contact the planning department to find out whether an application is to be heard at committee or dealt with under delegated powers . |
| 30 | In these smaller waters , the miller could work by day and his mill-pond would be replenished at night . |