Example sentences of "be [prep] [be] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless certain advances can be made at the national level , and given that politics and governmental power are still largely national in scope certain advances must be made at that level if they are to be made at all . |
| 2 | If spending and the community charge are to be kept at acceptable levels , staff numbers have to be kept under better control than that . |
| 3 | Give Way signs are to be erected at one of Darlington 's most dangerous junctions the intersection of Willow Road and Pierremont Road . |
| 4 | Five hundred NHS patients waiting for plastic surgery are to be treated at private hospitals , as part of a Government initiative to cut waiting lists . |
| 5 | In an initiative to be launched next month by tennis consultants Brian Hewitt Associates , in conjunction with the ITF and supported by a major sponsor , old tennis balls are to be collected at 2000 ball banks around the country and shipped to third world countries for additional and subsequent use . |
| 6 | Dry storage facilities are to be constructed at Scottish Nuclear 's advanced gas-cooled power stations at Torness and Hunterston , planning permission permitting . |
| 7 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 8 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 9 | Plant , machinery and other tangible fixed assets , whether owned or acquired under finance leases , are to be valued at net book value as included in the audited balance sheet as at 31 December 1989 . |
| 10 | It is a knitting system that should be considered as temporary storage area for patterns that are to be knitted at this time . |
| 11 | Consultation covers the way in which national programmes are to be introduced at these levels , and matters such as the efficiency of working arrangements , closure plans , staffing arrangements and relations with the public . |
| 12 | Gusty winds are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 13 | Offshore winds are dangerous and are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 14 | Land and buildings are to be shown at original cost or subsequent valuation . |
| 15 | Land and buildings are to be shown at original cost or subsequent valuation . |
| 16 | By Anne Harrison THE SKILLS of out-of-work bosses are to be offered at cut-price rates in a bid to encourage local firms to look after their workers . |
| 17 | If the mosaics from Newton St. Loe are to be included at all in group ( a ) , it will be as one step in a distributed relationship with the other Orpheus mosaics . |
| 18 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |
| 19 | INFRA-RED remote control receivers are to be installed at some of Darlington 's top attractions in a bid to encourage disabled users . |
| 20 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 21 | If it were to be stopped at all , then it could only be by means that fell entirely outside the constitution . |
| 22 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 23 | By contrast , a sense of ‘ community ’ seemed to be absolutely essential if village populations were to be maintained at viable levels . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 25 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 26 | Now the village 's secrets were to be revealed at last . |
| 27 | A critical element in these surveys was that data for past and future plans were to be presented at constant prices , as it was almost impossible to interpret a time series of expenditure for a period in which prices fluctuated significantly . |
| 28 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 29 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 30 | Clearly , incapacity or wilful refusal to consummate a marriage as presently defined , if it were to be retained at all as part of the law , could only apply to those relationships presently regarded as marriages . |