Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do , however , need to be tested at monthly intervals to ensure that the batteries are still active . |
| 2 | The report is intended as a complement to the International Convention on Biodiversity , which is expected to be signed at UNCED . |
| 3 | Boat traffic needs to be kept at modest levels in order to protect one of Britain 's most outstanding botanical treasures . |
| 4 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 5 | To devote five chapters to intonation may seem excessive , but I feel that this is necessary since the subject is difficult and complex , and needs to be explained at considerable length if the explanation is to be intelligible . |
| 6 | The formal directive still needs to be approved at subsequent meetings by the EC energy , environment and finance ministers . |
| 7 | The process of making base metal into gold was akin to the maturing of a human being , and the texts were deliberately written to be read at various levels . |
| 8 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 9 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 10 | Witnesses say the rover seemed to be travelling at high speed . |
| 11 | Explosions and laser fire were sporadic now , and seemed to be striking at random along the top of the ridge . |
| 12 | But there were no mirrors , just almost-invisible pockets of shining darkness where some still-standing stairs and statues disappeared , as if cut with shears , or seemed to be folded at impossible angles . |
| 13 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 14 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 15 | In order to prevent the seasons getting out of phase , a thirteenth month was inserted from time to time , but there was no regular system for the intercalation of this additional month until the fifth century BC , when seven of these months began to be inserted at fixed intervals in a cycle of nineteen years . |
| 16 | Interestingly however , the data presented here suggest that activation of HPV gene expression may not be dependent on decreased expression of Oct-1 , which in any case is known to be expressed at enhanced levels in rapidly proliferating transformed cells ( 28 , 29 ) . |
| 17 | Treated lambs should preferably be moved to safe pasture and if this is not possible , treatment may have to be repeated at monthly intervals until the pasture larval levels decrease in early winter . |
| 18 | Well it was to be helpful to the er to Mr and Scotton Parish Council that what what I was saying was , we were n't relying on the key diagram to justify at some future date , it being an outer northern relief road , that decision would have to be defended at future enquiry . |
| 19 | Increasingly , decisions will have to be made at European level by properly accountable European institutions . |
| 20 | Extensive farming will also mean that some of the land will have to be farmed at below-optimum intensity leading to consequent lower profitability . |
| 21 | The removal of this insurance was , of course , a significant factor in terms of developments , as the consequences of poor management in the future would have to be addressed at local level . |
| 22 | If a country is prone to high inflation then its currency will have to be devalued at regular intervals to maintain the price competitiveness of its exports . |
| 23 | Archives have an important role to ensure that strategic datasets , at the very least , continue to be deposited at low cost . |
| 24 | New , covered shopping centres — for all their obvious advantages in a climate such as ours — tend to be aimed at established shops with a brand name , which can pay a good rent . |
| 25 | Always aim to be carving at right angles to the bone , otherwise the sliced meat will be stringy in appearance and texture . |
| 26 | The idea was so successful in defusing the explosive situation that the meetings continued to be held at six-monthly intervals . |
| 27 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 28 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 29 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 30 | Space was at a premium and a slim attache case containing maps and other documents had to be jettisoned at Scotch Corner , a traditional stop on the Montes of old . |