Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The raiders must have had a large vehicle to transport the cattle which are valued at more than £1,000 each , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 2 | Biotechnology has been a dynamic part of the American stock market , and already 40 American firms are capitalised at more than $100 million . |
| 3 | It is important to note that a mosaic can be considered at more than one level — and conceivably at all levels — of affinity . |
| 4 | When you look at it next time , solutions may suggest themselves , and it can be looked at more objectively . |
| 5 | Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer . |
| 6 | In Vietnam , they were probably pre-eminent and could certainly lay the largest claim to ‘ control ’ of operational areas on the other side of the Chinese frontier in Tonkin even though their simultaneous claim to the status of ‘ resistance ’ forces needs to be looked at more closely . |
| 7 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
| 8 | Budgets are a particularly useful vehicle for the expression of quantifiable results , and will be looked at more closely later in the chapter . |
| 9 | With great rapidity tea replaced coffee as the major plantation crop , and soon its acreage surpassed that of coffee at its height , for tea could be grown at more varied elevations than coffee . |
| 10 | Maria Bjornson 's settings for both productions are striking and highly dramatic , enabling the action to be played at more than one level , based on a raked stage . |
| 11 | The new morning schedule for the Highlands would allow programmes to be scheduled at more suitable times , said Radio nan Gaidheal 's editor , Maggie Cunningham . |
| 12 | A settlement may be arrived at more usually before proceedings have begun , but may also be arrived at after proceedings have begun . |
| 13 | NB : No subject may be counted at more than one level . |
| 14 | NB : No subject may be counted at more than one level . |
| 15 | NOTE : MANY OF THE WINES LISTED HERE CAN BE FOUND AT MORE THAN ONE RETAILER . |
| 16 | There are around 35,000 Eurocard cash machines in Europe ; Eurocheques can be cashed at more than 215,000 banks and are accepted by more than 5m retailers , restaurants and hotels in 40 countries . |
| 17 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 18 | Such a definition takes a word with a certain valuational meaning , and rather vague descriptive meaning , and broadens , narrows or shifts the descriptive meaning so that the emotions expressed by the valuational meaning are directed at more or less substantially different targets . |
| 19 | The damage has been put at more than 60,000 pounds . |
| 20 | The insect population of a single large tussock has been estimated at more than 1,000 individuals . |
| 21 | The wage bill for the two month period has been estimated at more than £13,000 . |
| 22 | As the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one can vary during the day and acute increases have been found , a better correlation may have been obtained if a serum sample had been taken at more than one occasion from each patient . |
| 23 | Sometimes they were publicised at more than one assembly . |
| 24 | Budget restrictions and requirements are being looked at more closely . |
| 25 | The manager must be able to act decisively by , for example , bringing in more lower paid staff to assist in mundane areas thus increasing productivity when compared with the same work being done at more senior level . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding such erosion , landed wealth showed remarkable resilience and several landed estates were proved at more than £2 million during the inter-war years ; the eighth Duke of Northumberland , for instance , leaving more than £2,500,000 in 1930 . |
| 27 | In the early sixteenth century the family assets were estimated at more than sixty-three million florins . |
| 28 | The contract is valued at more than $200m . |
| 29 | Turnover in the world foreign exchange markets is estimated at more than $700 billion a day . |
| 30 | In 1986 the loss is estimated at more than $100 billion . |