Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 2 | Any titbits would be humbly placed at my feet . |
| 3 | One of the strengths of an analysis of timing is being able to distinguish between curriculum elements that are likely to require frequent input ( eg items in mathematics ) and items that might be effectively delivered at least in part in an interdisciplinary ‘ project ’ format , ( eg perhaps history or geography or RE ) . |
| 4 | The original Tempa Rossa-1 discovery well , which is in the Laurenzana permit , was drilled by Fina in 1989 but could not be properly tested at that time due to technical problems . |
| 5 | But before his ‘ Flying Circus ’ could be properly established at Verdun , there came the shattering news on June 18th of the death of Immelmann . |
| 6 | Seesaws should be properly cushioned at each end — tyres are ideal . |
| 7 | If the mentalist position can be coherently presented at all , then , it seems , it is only in the context of an idealist ontology based on the assumption that reality as a whole is non-physical . |
| 8 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 9 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 10 | For the congregation , musicians and clergy involved , it provides an incentive to their best efforts which may not be so marked at other times . |
| 11 | Now that 's what I 'd prefer , but in every , you know the majority go against me and they want it in a as I say I I would , I think that it 'd be better placed at the top . |
| 12 | Whilst recognising that the 16–25 age group has a very strong claim to any manpower which might become available , the question arises as to whether it would be better placed at , for example , deanery level serving the needs of the whole age group rather than in an educational establishment serving an important but small minority . |
| 13 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 14 | perhaps some of the real and practical problems of user education may not have been tackled , but some might argue that these might be better researched at single-institutional level , without the necessity of substantial , outside funding . |
| 15 | With Asians the picture in Leeds appears more straightforward : they tended to be less involved at every stage . |
| 16 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 17 | The problem list is most useful when it can be easily displayed at team meetings . |
| 18 | Compared with the measurement of alkalinisation and salinisation , whose samples of soil can be easily gathered at one point in time and the electrical conductivity of saturation extracts gauged , the measurement of soil loss is more demanding . |
| 19 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 20 | Not only are they breathtakingly beautiful during the day , but they can be easily lit at night . |
| 21 | A more general definition of resistance valid for varying cross-sections may be easily arrived at , but it is hardly worth the trouble . |
| 22 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 23 | If Brief Encounter were to be critically favoured at all , it had to be rescued from the discredited label of Coward and conclusively assigned to the body of texts marked ‘ Lean ’ . |
| 24 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 25 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 26 | He will be best remembered at The Foster 's Oval for his faultless administration of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' programme . |
| 27 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 28 | The important point to remember is that each unit within an NVQ has to be individually assessed at work or in a realistic work environment [ a college restaurant , for example ] so that the trainee proves he or she can do the job . |
| 29 | ‘ The two new models of mobile working platforms can be quickly deployed at a work site without the need for scaffolding , ladders or intermediate staging . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry this account has n't been paid yet , but any payments by the Parish Council have to be formally authorised at a meeting . |