Example sentences of "[vb pp] be at " in BNC.

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31 The justice 's role in the disposal of the offence with which Mr. Bell was charged was at an end .
32 Such records justified being at the top of the class structure , with heaven knows what colour of label ; but this would be undemocratic .
33 In his final speech , Mr Nutting told the jury O'Brien had admitted being at the scene of both shootings , but the Crown had to prove he was a participant .
34 Various attempts were made to increase the sales and advertising revenue of the two party papers , though the measures taken were at best mere palliatives .
35 Candidates must transcribe one passage at their chosen speed , from their shorthand notes , the transcription time allowed being at the rate of 7 words per minute .
36 Candidates must transcribe one passage at their chosen speed , from their shorthand notes , the transcription time allowed being at the rate of 7 words per minute .
37 Candidates must transcribe the 2 passages at their chosen speed , from their shorthand notes , the transcription time allowed being at the rate of 7 words per minute .
38 If we take this into account , the total length of DNA to be specified is at most 10 8 base pairs .
39 But that w that was how it was started was at , at the Lock at Bloxwich Lock .
40 A mortgagee who takes the title-deeds can not register , and his position as against that of a mortgagee whose mortgage is registrable and registered is at present , for lack of judicial decision , merely conjectural .
41 A special context in which the pain signal is given is at the end of the mating act , when the tom-cat is withdrawing his barbed penis from the female .
42 The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) .
43 ( Addresses where these can be obtained are at the end of the book . )
44 They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia .
45 The amount being recorded was at the limit of the detector 's sensitivity and the scientists felt that it did n't ( yet ) prove anything one way or the other .
46 The message seemed to be that women who are raped are at fault for not having successfully avoided it .
47 However , throughout 1943–87 men who had never married were at increased risk of anal cancer compared with colon or stomach cancer , Previous studies have reported an association between men who had never married and anal cancer and argued that these findings reflected an association with male homosexuality .
48 Third round draw , The first team mentioned is at home : Romford v Three Rivers ; Orsett v Royal Epping Forest ; Boyce Hill v Wamstead ; Upminster v Colchester ; Maylands v East Herts ; Ilford v Thorpe Hall ; Rochford Hundred v Chigwell ; Stapleford Abbotts v Braintree .
49 During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion .
50 Written dialogue in which , as here , source markers are suspended is at once nearer to and farther from children 's experience than is the form with source markers present .
51 The third was ensuring that whatever equipment was required was at the right place — and would work .
52 The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by .
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