Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doherty , from Strabane , had joined Derry on a one-month contract after being released at Old Trafford , the intention being to see how things worked out at the Brandywell . |
| 2 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 3 | A small Immediate Reaction Force based on the existing Allied Command Europe ( ACE ) Mobile Force , capable of being activated at short notice , would also be retained . |
| 4 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 5 | It must be capable of being repeated at some later date . |
| 6 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 7 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 8 | It had the added distinction of being edited at one time by Nelson Mandela , the ANC leader now in prison . |
| 9 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the passenger in the second car was reliving the horror of being towed at such great speed . |
| 11 | a vehicle placed on a road with the battery removed and incapable of being driven at all |
| 12 | It should also be understood that black sportsmen work sedulously at perpetuating their popular image of being relaxed at all times . |
| 13 | Despite being exercised at such length , Crookback 's histrionic powers show no abatement . |
| 14 | Despite being shot at point-blank range , Mr Dale ( 43 ) survived , but Mr Norris ( 46 ) died almost instantly . |
| 15 | The former soldier said : ‘ It was a bit like being mortared at any time . |
| 16 | This did not , however , stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all , as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur . |
| 17 | The mare , who finished ninth in the Sprouston Claiming Hurdle , was laid at the four-figure price by two Tattersalls bookmakers before being returned at 500-1 . |
| 18 | With only 11 runs needed from two overs , Byas rammed Snell through the covers before being caught at long on next ball . |
| 19 | … The second matter applies particularly to private sector , fee-paying schools where , as the Financial Secretary knows , there is often an arrangement for the children of staff in these schools to be taught at less than the commercial fee in other schools . |
| 20 | I just , you know , some meant to be meeting at five past one |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Impeccable etiquette is required from everyone ; discipline and good manners , have to be observed at all times . |
| 23 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 24 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 25 | In the West Cumbria project , funded by DOE , evaluation of existing geological records and mine plans has enabled solid and drift maps of the Coal Measures and Lower Carboniferous sequences to be compiled at 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 in more detail than was possible during the previous survey almost 60 years ago . |
| 26 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 27 | Bear in mind that where a procedure is approved , the published instructions include the minimum heights to be flown at successive stages in the approach and a final obstacle clearance limit or minimum descent height recommended . |
| 28 | Aware of the strength of public opinion , Mrs Aquino ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half mast in a conciliatory gesture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Five hundred NHS patients waiting for plastic surgery are to be treated at private hospitals , as part of a Government initiative to cut waiting lists . |