Example sentences of "[is] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 2 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 3 | Welcome back : A young wild deer is recovering at an animal rescue centre after having a leg amputated . |
| 4 | On the internal market , the price is calculated at a third to a half of the Western auction estimate price . |
| 5 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 6 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 7 | The importance of grazing both cows and sheep over the same land ( either together or in succession ) , both for the good of the sward and the health of the livestock , is explained at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 8 | There is one large interesting watercolour with a background of the Langdales , a middle ground of Hornby Castle and a foreground of the lower falls at Rydal ; all this is explained at the foot of the picture . |
| 9 | 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away . |
| 10 | Rail transport is placed at a disadvantage in Britain . |
| 11 | If kung fu kicks are to be effective , they must be delivered from the correct distance : if a kick falls short because it is badly timed , the kicker is placed at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | The pressure to conclude a settlement is almost always on the plaintiff who is placed at a considerable disadvantage against the skilled defendant . |
| 13 | Most government debt as it matures is rolled over , but the maturity of the replacement debt can have a significant influence on the yield curve in the form of humps in the market segment in which the debt is placed ( i.e. , the debt is placed at a relatively low price and a relatively high yield ) . |
| 14 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 15 | Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces . |
| 16 | Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass . |
| 17 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 18 | To give it maximum prominence the statement concerning factorisation in Q[x] is placed at the end of this section ( 1.9.18 ) . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 20 | The coarsest sieve required is placed at the top of a nest of sieves in which the screen openings become progressively smaller downwards . |
| 21 | For example , when a ball is placed at the top of a hill , it will roll downwards . |
| 22 | This is placed at the bottom of the cylindrical casing . |
| 23 | One coil electrode is placed at the SVC-RA junction and the second in the right ventricle ( fig 2 ) . |
| 24 | In Homeless History a blown-up snapshot of a young woman , circa 1930 , is placed at the entrance to a room where paper peels away from black mould , shattered plaster exposes beams and woodwork is broken . |
| 25 | Not only that , but it is placed at the wrong angle . |
| 26 | Oh is checked at the |
| 27 | Ironically , the linguistic difference ( in markedness ) between the terms is emphasized at the same time as their functional equivalence — with the milder signifying the stronger — is blatantly evident . |
| 28 | Members fear more jobs could be lost if a budget decision to cut the jobs and save money is ratified at a special full council meeting tomorrow night . |
| 29 | Conclusion : so far , the economy is contracting at a pace that is remarkably similar to America 's two deepest post-war recessions . |
| 30 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |