Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a dilapidated shopping arcade in a town centre have been delayed for at least a year . |
| 2 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 3 | Lear was also subject at the hands of his employer to even more glaring misacknowledgements : in what could generously be described as an insensitive oversight , four of the plates in Birds , are referred to at the bottom of the page as being ‘ drawn from Nature and on Stone by J & E Gould ’ , while the style of the bird and the signature on the drawing itself are patently Lear 's . |
| 4 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 5 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) A document which bears to have been executed by the Funding Council in accordance with sub-paragraph ( 2 ) above shall , in relation to such execution , be a probative document if the subscription of the document bears to have been attested by at least one witness . |
| 7 | However , the vector is described as being unstable in solution , resulting in less efficient cloning of the PCR-fragments when it has been dissolved for at least two months ( instructions to the ‘ TA Cloning TM System ’ , version 1.1 ) . |
| 8 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 9 | And despite the fact that the designer dance drug has been blamed for at least eight deaths , Alan Hewitt , Tyneside manager of the North Eastern Council on Addiction , says requests for information about it have rocketed . |
| 10 | The endorsement our society gives to an ideal of thinness for young women is likely to be responsible for the current high frequency of the illness , but other factors must also be involved since anorexic patients have been reported for at least the past 150 years . |
| 11 | Only valence shell MOs that are occupied by at least one electron can be studied by photoelectron spectroscopy ( PES ) , but for these we can deduce the binding energy and also in some cases the bonding or anti-bonding character of the orbital . |
| 12 | But once families are committed to at least one child and all the disruptions of career and household which inevitably follow , they are then inclined to have the second child that most expect , and are expected , to produce . |
| 13 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 14 | This gives the Board an opportunity to report to shareholders and to obtain their approval for resolutions that are voted upon at the Meeting . |
| 15 | Natural populations of white clover are polymorphic for incompatibility alleles and for the ability to form nitrogen fixing symbioses with strains of Rhizobium but these have not been looked at at Henfaes . |
| 16 | It was wispy and very feminine , a dress she had bought for a party that had in the event been missed by at least three months . |
| 17 | Most evening activity starts in the American style caf é/bar; that has been built down at street level . |
| 18 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 19 | Eddie and Frances McDermid are presented with at his retiral dinner . |
| 20 | And at the National Enquirer in the US , the paper which broke the story and published artist 's impressions of the pictures , insiders said the pictures had been seen by at least one member of staff . |
| 21 | Since then it 's been turned into at least five TV series varying in length from one to nine parts . |
| 22 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 23 | Her ceramics are sought after at craft fairs in Northallerton , Harrogate and York . |
| 24 | 1 ) Aluminium — Your baby must be approximately one year old and been fed for at least six months on soya infant formula or have been breastfed and received no soya products . |
| 25 | Abercrombie and Forshaw had already applied this model in the County of London Plan , and before the war the idea had been fed from at least two sources : from the continent there were the large building blocks of Vienna and elsewhere with their community facilities . |
| 26 | The new products are priced from at the equivalent of $17,800 to $128,000 , including software , and shipments are phased from late this month to early September . |
| 27 | The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year . |
| 28 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |
| 29 | They are made from at least 51% of a particular grain . |
| 30 | Well , it 's not what we 're used to at Hoggatt 's , senior staff knocking each other about . |