Example sentences of "be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 2 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 3 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 4 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 5 | The situation is more acute in the rural areas when only 32 per cent of the population aged seven to fourteen years are enrolled at school . |
| 6 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 7 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 8 | Some will carry 300 men , with the baggage , and others 150 horse with their riders ; 150 more are building at Brest , St Malo , Nantes , Port L'Orient , Morlaix and other ports of Brittany . |
| 9 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 10 | A comparable building complex has also been examined at Godmanchester , built c . |
| 11 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 12 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 13 | They should have been stopped at the block … ’ |
| 14 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 15 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 17 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 18 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 19 | Forest products are gathered at a level which does not affect the harvest next year be it fruit , timber , grasses , wild honey or medicinal plants . |
| 20 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 21 | She will ensure that women 's voices are heard at the highest level . |
| 22 | The indirect costs of two children over the mother 's lifetime are calculated at £135 000 . |
| 23 | Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year . |
| 24 | Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year . |
| 25 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 26 | STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine |
| 27 | By 1932 Gallacher had been joined at Chelsea by his two fellow internationalists Jackson and Cheyne and the three Scots became the focus of an acrimonious dispute about wages , trade unionism and bonus payments . |
| 28 | In some areas , such as the Three Valleys water company region north of London , aquifers have not been replenished at all . |
| 29 | If you are dismissed at the end of your first year , concentrating on the terms of the contract leads to the conclusion that you ordinarily worked in Great Britain , whereas looking at what actually happened leads to the opposite conclusion . |
| 30 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |