Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] at the [det] " in BNC.

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1 The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses .
2 However , issues like those listed above can only begin to be seriously addressed if more fundamental assumptions about primary practice are challenged at the same time .
3 Attempts to restore the immune system are more likely to succeed if anti-viral therapy is used at the same time .
4 With the landmark and directional cues present ( but feeders removed ) , the paths taken by all rats in each group ( Fig. 2 a , b ) showed a striking dissociation : search was concentrated at the former location of F+ in group fixed but around L+ in group varied .
5 Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography .
6 To reduce the risk of variable staining intensities , Grimelius staining was performed at the same time for all the specimens of one examination year .
7 Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects .
8 The lower part of the corps de logis on the southern or river side was built at the same time as the keep , but later raised , when a northern wing was added to it .
9 o Damage to or resulting from movement of solid floor slabs unless the foundations beneath the exterior walls of the dwelling are damaged at the same time .
10 If the same dose and type of insulin are given at the same time each day and either the food intake or the amount of physical activity fluctuates to a significant degree , the consequences are going to be unacceptable hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia .
11 And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been .
12 The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control .
13 Time the action so that your withdrawal is completed at the same time as your advancing foot is taking up its new position .
14 Assuming that the ultimate disclosure is made at the same time under either rule , they receive only $50 for their share without insider trading .
15 In a letter to the British Medical Journal in 1938 on the treatment of pneumonia he stated that sulphapyridine was active against pneumococci only when helped by leucocytes , and ( true to the tradition of Almroth Wright ) its action was improved if anti-pneumococcal serum was administered at the same time .
16 The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place .
17 A cervical vagotomy was performed through a midline neck incision and a tracheostomy tube was inserted at the same time .
18 Although it is not clear whether the Falange leader was notified at the same time , the indications are that he was aware of Franco 's decision , for he called an extraordinary session of the party 's National Council , in order to elect a permanent party leader .
19 A National Development Group was established at the same time to advise on policy .
20 Fourteen drums of crushed flint and water are ground at the same time .
21 Because all this electronic processing is done at the same time , the original speech signal is fed to all the circuits , the analysis is almost instantaneous .
22 After greeting you frantically , the dog rolls over on to its back , and a small volume of urine is passed at the same time .
23 Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate .
24 Dialysis was performed at the same time of day for each subject .
25 Goh Chok Tong replaced Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister in November 1990 and the Cabinet was reshuffled at the same time [ see p. 37860 ] .
26 When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service .
27 In data manipulation on a parallel computer all bits of a word are processed at the same time , while on a serial computer the bits of a word are processed one after another .
28 Where there is no tidal range wave attack is concentrated at the same level of the coast for twenty-four hours a day , but where the tidal range is great it may be spread over a vast foreshore zone and may only attack the foot of the cliffs for a very short period at each high tide .
29 The air is compressed at the same frequency as the vibrations and then expands , compressing the air next to it .
30 A parallel Committee on the Staffing of Local Government was established at the same time ‘ to consider the existing methods of recruiting local government officers and of using them ; and what changes might help local authorities to get the best possible service and help their officers to give it ’ ( Mallaby 1967:iii ) .
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