Example sentences of "[verb] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | Israel has proved highly successful at achieving regional predominance in association with the United States but this has been at the price of increasing economic and military dependence on its outside patron . |
| 32 | The example of Virginia Woolf 's interior monologue has been at least as useful , in this way , as Joyce 's or Dorothy Richardson 's stream of consciousness , most immediately to Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen in the 1930s , as well as to later writers , women perhaps especially , such as Anita Brookner . |
| 33 | But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant . |
| 34 | This vast expanse of grass and heather is a cover concealing a realm of magic and mystery , where since the beginning of time nature has been at work slowly evolving an intricate subterranean labyrinth of caverns , grottoes and canals carved in beautiful designs by the agency of running water . |
| 35 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 36 | Sister Linda Buckland , who has been at the General for the past ten years , expressed mixed emotions . |
| 37 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 38 | Your father has been at Una to marry Drennan , cajoling her , pleading with her , aye , and threatening her ! |
| 39 | Hitherto , our provision here has been at best haphazard , and at worst deplorable . |
| 40 | The contributors follow the modern theory that Christians need to discover the areas in which the Holy Spirit has been at work in heathen faiths . |
| 41 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |
| 42 | Nor was anything said about the fact that federal support of civilian R&D has been at a ground-losing $14 000 million for the past three years — down by $3000 million since Reagan took office . |
| 43 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 44 | Apart from our Nimrods , there has been at least one overflight by a Tupolev . ’ |
| 45 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
| 46 | Perhaps , when people have expressed negative views of Dustin 's behaviour and personality , we can charitably assume that his Döppelgänger , Harvey Pepper , has been at work again . |
| 47 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 48 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 49 | The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979 . |
| 50 | The question of what is significant has been at the heart of much recent discussion , but is not addressed in the ASB 's proposals . |
| 51 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 52 | It has been a great privilege to see how God has been at work in their lives and to be part of His plan for these men . |
| 53 | Iraq 's heritage has been at least as much shaped by Ottoman rule as Romania 's , but equally Saddam and the Iraqi Ba'ath Party modelled their organization and secret police methods on those of the Soviet Communist Party and its little brothers . |
| 54 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 55 | Snell , who has been at the station for nine years , said : ‘ This woman really wound me up . |
| 56 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 57 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 58 | It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London.The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down.I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by . |
| 59 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 60 | Patrick Phillips has been at loggerheads with the residents of Long Melford over recently-approved plans to divert part of a public footpath which runs along the approach to his Grade I-listed home Kentwell Hall . |