Example sentences of "be [verb] [indef pn] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved .
2 You 're eliminating one at a time .
3 They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally .
4 The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture .
5 If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable .
6 If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness .
7 The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time .
8 If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time .
9 Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny .
10 For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care .
11 To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change .
12 a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program .
13 These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them .
14 It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience .
15 CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible .
16 People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material .
17 London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 .
18 Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt .
19 Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time .
20 In reality , however , even when the electrons are sent one at a time , the fringes still appear .
21 It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’
22 In the following text pages , each step is taken one at a time and ‘ what happened ’ and why is detailed .
23 Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where .
24 One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting .
25 But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride .
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