Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money at call is money which can be withdrawn at only a few hours ' notice . |
| 2 | A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed , to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers . |
| 3 | Unused storage positions should be filled with dummy records , so that they can be recognized at once . |
| 4 | When they are all put together under topic headings the full interview schedule will then tell us how long the interview is likely to take and if it is much too long some pruning can be undertaken at once . |
| 5 | Church growth data-gathering needs to be undertaken at least at two levels , national and local . |
| 6 | In symptom-free patients with complex ventricular arrhythmias or a family history of early sudden cardiac death , beta-adrenoceptor blockers should be given at maximally tolerated doses . |
| 7 | Therefore some support can be given at relatively little cost to oneself , and without really testing feelings of duty to their limits . |
| 8 | New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training . |
| 9 | In particular , every pupil should be given at least some experience of the plays or poetry of Shakespeare . |
| 10 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 11 | This might suggest that octreotide injections should be given at least 45 minutes after a meal . |
| 12 | The prisoners welfare group Nacro , says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start . |
| 13 | When the guests had gone , all the pipes would be broken at once , and then thrown away . ’ |
| 14 | Disturbed sleep has become a habit that will not be broken at once . |
| 15 | Production from both fields will be sustained at approximately 40,000 bopd from mid-1993 . |
| 16 | Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it . |
| 17 | Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast ; in particular , the Piper field has more than doubled its originally projected cost . |
| 18 | He also warned : ‘ Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast . |
| 19 | It coincided with the commercial development of two key components for the polymerase chain reaction : a DNA polymerase that could be heated at quite high temperatures ( boiling water ) without losing its activity , and robust machines that would quickly heat and cool samples repeatedly in a cyclic fashion . |
| 20 | We further agree with retributivists , denunciationists and Justice Model theorists that one valid general principle for the distribution of punishment is that offenders should be punished at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences . |
| 21 | And now Sutton had formed a coterie of cronies round him and was appointing the wrong staff , which had to be stopped at once . |
| 22 | Therefore , the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy . |
| 23 | In a backless window the goods should be placed at around average waist-to-shoulder height . |
| 24 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 25 | All your licensed premises on your area had to be checked at least once a week ( in uniform ) and the sergeant would pick you up and take you visiting these various posts , and I used to take a glass of beer . |
| 26 | This procedure is called policing the data and each of the principal tables will be checked at least once every three months . |
| 27 | The sheriff said it was ‘ desirable ’ that all remand prisoners be checked at least hourly every night and not just those identified as at risk from suicide , or poor health or those likely to try to escape . |
| 28 | The record has to be checked at once — to see if a booking is available , for example — and this means that the file has to be referenced without preparatory sorting or processing . |
| 29 | With exuberant lack of tact , Mr Dienstbier says , ‘ From NATO we want to know that , if we were threatened , we 'd be treated at least as Kuwait , if necessary . ’ |
| 30 | But our individual employees are entitled to be treated at least as fairly as their colleagues in Europe . |