Example sentences of "[vb pp] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 2 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 3 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 4 | Read every word and study the plans , before and after your survey , and if you do not understand any point , or if what you see or have seen is at variance with what is set down in the documents , then it is VITAL that you consult your solicitor before exchanging contracts . |
| 5 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 6 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 7 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 8 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 9 | less greedily rooted are at risk . |
| 10 | What is needed is at least 100 MPs present to support the Bill . |
| 11 | Content and Methodology Most of the training currently being offered is at an introductory level . |
| 12 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 13 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 14 | Now lip service has been paid to the length of transport policy in the South East , on off er donkey 's years er in fact an organisation roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Picc was working towards one but we know what happened to that . |
| 15 | There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions . |
| 16 | ‘ I think , ’ Rory said , ‘ it 's called being at an awkward age . ’ |
| 17 | At one political meeting last month , I was abused being at one and the same time a pro-Marketeer , an anti-devolutionist , and , horror of horrors , pro-Sizewell ( AGR tendency only , I hasten to add ) . |
| 18 | This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) . |
| 19 | While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession . |
| 20 | The incidence of breast cancer detected is at odds with the government 's claim that its programme has sufficient safeguards . |
| 21 | The Egypt into which Nasser was born was at its base an old and stable society . |
| 22 | Landlord might be at risk financially , the subtenancy proposed being at a premium and a low rent . |
| 23 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 24 | While it is certain that VAT will be added to domestic fuel from April next year , what is n't known is at what rate . |
| 25 | But the skills involved are at least equalled by those lavished on some of the base metal objects , such as the iron sword with its complex design of pattern welding ( see p. 88 ) and the intricately cast and decorated escutcheons on the hanging bowls . |
| 26 | In situations of this sort the exchange may need special rules , or even powers , which allow it to act for reasons of market integrity alone , and in order to preserve investor confidence , regardless of whether the parties involved are at fault . |
| 27 | Since the trends that I have observed are at work in most other fields of business activity it seems unlikely that the book trade will be able to avoid them . |
| 28 | Almost the entire Street cast were at Granada 's studio to film the tribute which is to be screened later this year . |
| 29 | Teaching is almost always by the expository method of demonstration and description , and the kind of learning involved is at a lower level of the hierarchy . |
| 30 | Mergers have a Community Dimension where : ( 1 ) The combined aggregate worldwide turnover of all the parties involved is at least 5,000,000,000 ( 5 billion ) ECU . |