Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At Christmas her Uncle Bertie assembled the clan at his manor house in Wiltshire and announced that as a start she had better be presented at Court . |
| 2 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 3 | Although the numbers will not apparently be limited at the briefings , a notional limit may be set on the number of climbers admitted to the range on any one occasion . |
| 4 | He said that guerrilla attacks would henceforth be directed at military targets , state companies and economic installations among others . |
| 5 | An outside problem can sometimes be helped by , say , more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level . |
| 6 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 7 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 8 | In the pre-1973 definition case of BS Brown and Son Ltd v Craik Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 752 which was accepted as authority in Aswan Engineering ( 1987 ) , the House of Lords held that goods will be unmerchantable if they can only be resold at a substantially reduced price . |
| 9 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 10 | Although it may be beneficial to address this point at this stage rather than leave it to the flotation , the alternative argument is that such matters can only be decided at the time of flotation when the parties are better able to assess what is commercially necessary to achieve an optimum result . |
| 11 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 12 | When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , certain landlords tend to abuse rights of access and as a first step the tenant should ensure that the right is subject to reasonable notice and may only be exercised at reasonable times , except of course in cases of emergency . |
| 14 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 15 | As usual we take the immediate point — Frodo and the others want to get out of the forest — while reading through to a kind of universality : the ‘ shadowed land ’ is life , life 's delusions of despair are the ‘ woods ’ , despair will end in some vision of cosmic order which can only be hinted at in stars or ‘ sun ’ . |
| 16 | Desertion could be marked by its disappearance from the taxation rolls , or by the union of the parish with another , whereas decay could only be hinted at by a relief of tax payments . |
| 17 | Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level . |
| 18 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 19 | A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable . |
| 20 | It is happening in the present , and the future can only be guessed at . |
| 21 | Quite how these amazing animals landed and took off ( if they did ) can only be guessed at . |
| 22 | Their destination could only be guessed at , but by their line of march through upper Clydesdale it looked as though they were heading for the West March , possibly even Galloway . |
| 23 | The precise composition of the £0-£4 group can only be guessed at ; nevertheless it is clear that the gulf between the merchant class and the artisan population was a very wide one indeed . |
| 24 | Whatever specific qualities Donald Wilson observed in Whitaker 's style of writing , and saw as suitable for Doctor Who , can only be guessed at , but it is very likely he saw in Whitaker the sought-after bridge of writing for adults and writing for children . |
| 25 | The excavated third of the sett was carefully mapped , but the details of the rest of the sett — which continues south for another 65 metres and now houses all badgers — can only be guessed at . |
| 26 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 27 | As the months have passed , it his become clear that something like a campaign of disinformation has been waged , for reasons which can still only be guessed at . |
| 28 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 29 | Reckoned up over the eleven months covered , this represented a take-home figure of £64 : 3s. : 5d. , but in what proportion this was distributed amongst them can only be guessed at . |
| 30 | Local tradespeople obviously benefited , but to what extent can only be guessed at . |