Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 2 | Little scientific data has ever been released to assess the effect of the killing on the dolphin population , and much of what is known about the hunt has been gathered at great personal risk by non-government organisations . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 5 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 6 | By the end of 1988 gamma radiation dose monitors had been installed at 46 meteorological stations as part of phase 1 of the development programme . |
| 7 | ADH subunits are encoded at five different gene loci on chromosome 4 and polymorphisms have been observed in two : ADH2 ( producing three different Β subunits ) and ADH3 ( producing two different γ subunits ) . |
| 8 | Human ALDHs are encoded at four independant loci on four different chromosomes . |
| 9 | Exchange bureaux are sited at all main entry points . |
| 10 | The above statement and similar ones have been made at many public meetings called in support of an independent Ulster . |
| 11 | On the South Orkney Islands Chlamydomonas , Raphidonema and possibly Ochromonas are implicated ( Fogg , 1967 ) , similar accumulations of algae in a wide range of species have been seen at many other points around the coast ( Akiyama , 1979 ; Kol and Flint , 1968 ; for a recent review see Vincent , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Tubifex is the worm that most fishkeepers are familiar with because they are sold at many tropical fish outlets . |
| 13 | Cray systems are used at most European weather centres , and Cray is obviously front-runner to provide a replacement for the Bracknell , Berkshire based system , but the Met Office is yet to sign anything . |
| 14 | Roy Hattersley , deputy party leader , was blamed for the change in policy which has been approved at three previous conferences . |
| 15 | In the eastern part of the USA the significance of conservation measures has been demonstrated at two different scales ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 16 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
| 17 | Many other antarctic lakes are known at these early stages of development . |
| 18 | It was executed by a travelling craftsman whose stock pattern can be recognized at other local houses . |
| 19 | The MEI schedule is therefore the investment demand schedule , telling us the level of investment that will be undertaken at any given rate of interest . |
| 20 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 21 | The argument can not be stopped at this simple point , however . |
| 22 | But then the problem of the relation between internal and external modes can not be considered at this formal level only . |
| 23 | Repair Timings : Repair timings may be considered at three distinct levels , the defer/do now decision , scheduled maintenance task sequencing and component life decisions . |
| 24 | While faecal occult blood testing is likely to prove the most cost effective method of screening large populations , genetic tests could initially be targeted at selected high risk groups . |
| 25 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 26 | Toshiba Corp is to manufacture Quantum Effect Design Inc ‘ s Orion version of the Mips Technologies Inc R4000 RISC which will be targeted at high-end personal computers running Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 27 | Thomson-CSF SA says its Syseca unit won a contract worth several million dollars to provide a turnkey system to send messages between 29 European civil aviation agencies : the contract , awarded by Eurocontrol , which oversees air traffic control across Europe , calls for installing the system by end-1993 , and the contract is part of a vast programme to link up Europe 's air traffic control systems — the present fragmentation is one of the key causes of the air travel delays ; the Central Flow Management Unit system will be based on Syseca 's Aermac product , and will collect flight plans from the World Civil Aviation Network , the SITA airline network SITA and from air traffic control centres ; it will be installed at two central sites , at Haren , Belgium and Bretigny-sur-Orge , France , using Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant systems connected via an X25 packet-switched network . |
| 28 | At least one strong appeal inherent in Christ 's teaching lay in its promise of a life of happiness to be enjoyed at some future date . |
| 29 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |
| 30 | ‘ In order to achieve this , measures must be developed that can be applied at particular neuralgic points only and that will all the same have a traffic restraining effect on the whole area . |