Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine |
| 2 | This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ? |
| 3 | A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years . |
| 4 | Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory . |
| 5 | The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage . |
| 6 | A bewildering number of configurations are now available ( Sigma Instruments , 1972 ; Cassat , 1977 ) , but in this Chapter discussion is confined to the basic drive circuits and the potential benefits of more sophisticated drives are examined at a later stage ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 8 | For example , we have withdrawal groups for music , not that their ordinary subjects are disrupted in this way , but it can be so organized on the timetable that they are withdrawn at a different period each week , and getting together , for example , to play in the school orchestra erm is of terrific value . |
| 9 | Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace . |
| 10 | While research dealing with the optimum length of hospital stay is sparse , significantly fewer relapses are seen in patients who complete an inpatient programme and are discharged at a normal weight than in those who leave prematurely . |
| 11 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 12 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 13 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
| 14 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 15 | Where the publications are a supply for acquisition , the recipient subscriber will account for VAT in its member state although such publications are zero-rated in the UK , in other member states they are taxed at a reduced rate , and in Denmark they are taxed at 25% ! |
| 16 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 17 | They are fine in Cookstown when you are looking at a working population of 8 or 9,000 people , but in Belfast travel-to-work area you are looking at something like 150,000 people and that confuses the well-off and the very impoverished . |
| 18 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 19 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 20 | Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’ |
| 21 | The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford . |
| 22 | In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted . |
| 23 | If evaluation is defined as assessing how effectively needs are met at a given cost , then precise identification of needs is obviously paramount , as the Guideline on Evaluation notes , most emphatically : ‘ Without proper identification of need , evaluation is meaningless ’ . |
| 24 | Even if the two lists are merged at a later date , the historical traditionally positive attitudes toward the European languages may continue to permeate the philosophy underlying the education system ( including the curriculum and examinations ) . |
| 25 | This all sounds good and even looks good if you 're looking at a still picture in the magazine , but the animation is a tad on the jerky side . |
| 26 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
| 27 | Erm given that we 're looking at a long-term greenbelt proposal and a comparatively relatively short-term Southern Ryedale Local Plan , erm I think it 's very difficult to for anybody to establish a need now , i in the terms of implied under E Ten , which is going to perhaps erm not show itself erm for for twenty or twenty five years , in in terms of o of land allocation , la land requirement . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had complaints from over 200 amusement hall operators , parents , safety standards people … we 're looking at a complete re-run of that blasted horrorshow we had when Pit Bull was released . ’ |
| 29 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 30 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |