Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 2 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 3 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 4 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 5 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 6 | Less fabric is taken up when they are placed at this angle , preventing the seamline from reducing and puckering . |
| 7 | Example heads of agreement are given at 1104.1 ( detailed version ) and 1104.2 ( shorter version ) . |
| 8 | These calculations allowed for £2.1 million to be made available for further community developments in Riverside to follow the closure ( all these figures are given at 1986 prices ) . |
| 9 | Example definitions for stock and fixed assets are given at 1104.3 . |
| 10 | These displays are given at localized courting places called leks . |
| 11 | The loci classici are Allen v McAlpine [ 1968 ] 2 QB 299 and Birkett v James [ 1978 ] AC 297 ; the principles are given at 25/¼ , 25/1/5 , and 25/1/6 in The Supreme Court Practice 1988 . |
| 12 | Access into the high rack area is normally restricted to the high lift trucks and all other personnel are excluded — except for occasional maintenance and monitoring checks when moveable barriers are erected at each end of the aisle to prevent such entry . |
| 13 | In the late fourth century Bagadates and Ariaramnes , two more , obvious , Persians , are honoured at another Karian sanctuary , Amyzon ( J. and L. Robert , 1983 , Amyzon , i. p. 97 ) . |
| 14 | Locke 's views on this matter are similar to Gassendi 's , but are developed at greater length . |
| 15 | This is because students from other parts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are joined at each of the four campuses by a growing number of overseas students , reflecting the reputation of Northern Ireland for offering warm hospitality to its visitors and the tradition of the University of Ulster as a host to students from other countries . |
| 16 | It 's been announced that seventy jobs are to go at two research establishments — A-E-A Technology is laying off forty maintenance staff at Harwell , and thirty engineers at nearby Culham . |
| 17 | A total of three thousand jobs are to go at British Aerospace in Hertfordshire and the North West . |
| 18 | Thirty more jobs are to go at another plant at Cinderford in the Forest of Dean . |
| 19 | They have prepared me well , supported me through university , taught me the difference between right and wrong , so that I know which I am enjoying at any given time ! |
| 20 | Children who are struggling at this level will also have problems in grasping more complex aspects of text construction , such as the shifts of voice studied in this paper . |
| 21 | It is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day . |
| 22 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 23 | Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length . |
| 24 | The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times . |
| 25 | We are gazing at each other , and it never occurs to us to kiss . |
| 26 | As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins . |
| 27 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 28 | Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house . |
| 29 | The tidal range in this estuary is large ( 7m at spring tides ) and large sandbanks are exposed at low tide . |
| 30 | Crash site is on mudflats that are exposed at low tide some 150 yards seaward of The Old Neptune public house , Whitstable , North Kent , and part of the aircraft 's bomb load was destroyed by an Ordnance Disposal team in November 1991 . |