Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 2 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 3 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 4 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 5 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 6 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 7 | However once the unemployment rate has stabilized at a new , higher level , so too will the equilibrium rate of unemployment . |
| 8 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 9 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 10 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 12 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 13 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 14 | Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum . |
| 15 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 16 | In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb . |
| 17 | The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met . |
| 18 | ROWAN Atkinson has hinted at a return to TV for the villainous Blackadder in a fifth series of misadventures . |
| 19 | The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago . |
| 20 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 21 | The area of surgery has expanded at an incredible speed from virtually from nothing three years ago to taking over as much as fifty percent or even seventy five percent of general surgery . |
| 22 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 23 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 24 | In addition , the size of the bands indicates that at least one copy of the construct has been integrated into the interrupted beta-tubulin gene at the 3' end of the tubulin locus ( 7.4kb fragment ) , and that a second integration event has occurred at a PstI site within an intact beta-tubulin gene ( 5.8 kb band ) . |
| 25 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 26 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 27 | An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming . |
| 28 | Despite the comprehensiveness and relative complexity of Porter 's analysis , he concludes that , once one has arrived at an assessment of one 's competitive strengths by considering how strong an SBU is in terms of the factors in figure 4.5 which are most important for the relevant industry , there are only three generic strategies open to any SBU to become more competitive . |
| 29 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 30 | Britain 's reported current-account deficit has run at an annual rate of £20 billion ( $34 billion ) in the first two months of this year , equivalent to 4% of GDP — even bigger than America 's . |