Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] 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 is very popular with the Milanese , and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day .
17 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 .
18 Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length .
19 The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times .
20 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 .
21 Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust .
22 Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house .
23 The tidal range in this estuary is large ( 7m at spring tides ) and large sandbanks are exposed at low tide .
24 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 .
25 Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre .
26 Potentially suitable suppliers are approached at this stage with an invitation to be considered for a supply relationship .
27 About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen .
28 While notes 3 and 5 in the series of fourths are omitted at first , they later form a chord themselves , joined by note 11 ( note 10 being omitted ) .
29 The patent contains eight pages of mathematical formulae which purport to prove that a microphone will have much better directional characteristics if the holes are spaced at irregular or non-linear intervals .
30 So the villages are spaced at 3 or 4 km intervals along the middle courses of the valleys .
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