Example sentences of "be [verb] at an " in BNC.

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1 Two doses of vaccine are given at an interval of four weeks and , in order to allow a high level of immunity to develop , vaccinated calves should be protected from challenge until two weeks after their second dose .
2 It is important that assessment methodologies which will provide valid and reliable results are developed at an early stage .
3 Might this be solely because its mystery and complexity are recognized at an instinctive level ?
4 Thirteen hundred jobs are to go at an oil platform construction yard in the Highlands .
5 Up to sixty jobs are to go at an engineering firm in Swindon .
6 Eighty jobs are to go at an insurance group in Gloucester .
7 Three hundred and eighty jobs are to go at an engineering firm .
8 Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains .
9 Speech patterns are formed at an early age and are firmly established — part of our way of life , an almost subconscious activity , rather in the same way as chewing or walking .
10 Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference .
11 Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school .
12 This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms .
13 Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy .
14 So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers .
15 Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ .
16 Children are sometimes told ‘ it is rude to stare ’ , but cat-lovers often forget this rule when they are looking at an approaching feline .
17 Does this mean that we are looking at an item produced by a cabinet-maker who was also able to furnish funerals ?
18 ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again .
19 Then you just er interpolate so erm if you are looking at an F one fifty test this , which we 've got tables here that give F one thirty and F one forty , oh sorry F one forty and F one sixty just interpolate so the critical value would be nought point nought five , sorry , four point nought five , right , so you just average the difference there .
20 Not great poetry , by any means ; but it convinces me that Crabbe and Peter Grimes and myself do stop beside an opening sluice , and that we are looking at an actual English tideway , and not at some vague , vast imaginary waterfall , which crashes from nowhere to nowhere .
21 They are living at an address that only I know .
22 The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions .
23 Some of the vines are planted up to 180 metres , but most are grown at an altitude of between 140 and 160 metres on full south-facing slopes .
24 They are pushing at an open door , we in the industry are already working for change .
25 Problems will arise on an asset sale where the vendor and purchaser are members of the same group of companies and the assets are transferred at an under value .
26 When you 're looking at an , a a a an average profit for the group erm you
27 At £49.95 , it 's affordable for the one-off job ( it could easily save you that in architect 's fees alone if you 're looking at an extension ) , and it does n't require a mega-PC to run it .
28 generally you 're looking at an eighteen month 's sales period
29 Yes , say if you 're looking at an E O that feels that they 're really happy with the client group , and things like that that 's fine .
30 If goods are sold at an auction to someone who has been a party to such an agreement to abstain from bidding , then the seller can rescind the contract .
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