Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of summary proceedings for recovery of land , Ord 24 , r 4 , any person not named as a respondent may apply to be joined at any stage of the proceedings on the question whether an order for possession should be made . |
| 2 | Aware of the strength of public opinion , Mrs Aquino ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half mast in a conciliatory gesture . |
| 3 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 4 | Archives have an important role to ensure that strategic datasets , at the very least , continue to be deposited at low cost . |
| 5 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 9 | These drafts provided for foreign and defence policy and for issue of police and judicial co-operation to be decided at intergovernmental level outside the normal EC decision-making machinery . |
| 10 | ( It will have to be moved at this time in any case ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All major companies have rules which permit investments below a certain scale to be undertaken at divisional level without head-office approval . |
| 13 | There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price . |
| 14 | It 's the second health issue in recent weeks in Oxfordshire to be raised at national level . |
| 15 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 16 | They are made to be drunk at one sitting . |
| 17 | The decision faced by firms as to which intermediary to use , and the policies to be adopted at this point , are critical to the firm 's future in the market . |
| 18 | A number of these partial studies may lead the way towards a solution of problems too difficult to be grasped at one effort . |
| 19 | ‘ And after that it will be the turn of your gallery and your boy to be destroyed at any time of our choosing . ’ |
| 20 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
| 21 | Increasingly , decisions will have to be made at European level by properly accountable European institutions . |
| 22 | That judgment will have to be made at that time . |
| 23 | Because of the peculiar restricted hours that banks open I am unable to visit the branch where the account is held and any over-the-counter transactions — usually only 2 per year — have to be made at another branch . |
| 24 | Where no guardian is appointed initially any party may apply for an appointment to be made at any stage in the proceedings ( FPCR , r10(2) ; FPR , r4.10(2) ) . |
| 25 | Three further points need to be made at this juncture . |
| 26 | One further point which needs to be made at this stage concerns the question of ideology , class conflict , and class consciousness . |
| 27 | The apparent paradox of Nizan 's ideological/psychological mentality needs to be scrutinised at this juncture since it is clear that after 1935 his intellectual itinerary became far more complex , shaped as it was by countless pressures arising not only from a new party strategy but also from a deepening international political crisis . |
| 28 | The new Synod to be elected at some date in the autumn will have the ticklish task of negotiating the issues about ordaining women to the priesthood . |
| 29 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 30 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |