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

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1 Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance .
2 Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder .
3 Consequently , it can be planned so that it is raised at the most appropriate time for it to be dealt with effectively .
4 or anything like that and I will make the point that it is targeted at a sector of the economy and the workforce , it is not the whole economy and not the whole workforce .
5 Stewardship of our resources , as well as respect for the preferences of many of our people , demands that it be maintained at a high level .
6 The PAC also expressed its discontent at the name of CODESA — it had proposed " conference for a constituent assembly " — and the venue — it had urged that it be held at a " neutral " venue , outside South Africa .
7 He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles .
8 So successful was the system that it was reintroduced at the beginning of World War II .
9 It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice .
10 All four men stood in the room and Farrell raised the pistol once more so that it was aimed at the agent 's head .
11 It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ?
12 I would still however consider that the stop north of Scotmid would be a little closer to Low 's shop then the next stop once it is relocated at the southern end of St Patrick Square .
13 Provided it is returned at the end yes please .
14 The scale is not very important provided it is chosen at the start and not changed throughout the exercise .
15 The new XJ 4. litre follows the sales success of the 3. litre model , and it 's aimed at the sportier drivers among Jaguar customers , as well as getting younger drivers behind the famous wheel .
16 It is true that the writing-up of a thesis may be its author 's first , and most difficult , exercise in scientific communication , and it is written at a time when the author may be scientifically immature , and lacking the communication skills which will develop later .
17 This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher .
18 Of course this famous pamphlet was a much more practical political publication than The German Ideology and it was written at a time of tremendous political ferment .
19 In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month .
20 And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well .
21 But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day .
22 Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ .
23 Councillor Collinson is the owner of the local post office and general stores and it was agreed at the recent meeting of the Parish Council that this would be a good way of ensuring that the information pack was readily accessible by anyone wishing to consult it .
24 The terrorists were obviously about to fire their weapon and it was aimed at the main grandstands .
25 It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence .
26 Desperate food shortages continued in Tskhinvali , and it was reported at the end of March that the town 's vital road link to North Ossetia had been cut by Georgian armed bands .
27 Christabel LaMotte wrote this long and very convoluted poem about Melusina 's story in the 1860s and it was published at the beginning of the 1870s .
28 and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute .
29 Top juniors are capable of beginning to detect differences between two pieces of evidence , if it is presented at a simple language level , and even bias and attitudes to events .
30 If it is pushed at the wrong point of the swinging cycle , the motion is upset and it tends to stop .
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