Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] at a " 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 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 3 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 4 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 12 | Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’ |
| 13 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 14 | Maureen Stone 's arguments that multicultural education is based on a deprivation model of black children explain how multiracial education may actually be placing them at a disadvantage . |
| 15 | To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change . |
| 16 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 17 | These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps the survivors of a stranding are less likely to be stranded themselves at a later date . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With strong evidence to show that children under the age of two are at considerable risk from passive smoking , smokers are putting themselves at a disadvantage because agencies can select from equally suitable candidates who do not smoke . ’ |
| 22 | Now if we are going to say that this rolling programme , we we do n't mean this rolling programme because it it 's all going back to committees again to be to be looked at then we are putting our at a disadvantage they will disband and the cost to us for refurbishment will increase . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 25 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We were following them at a good clip . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In reality , however , even when the electrons are sent one at a time , the fringes still appear . |
| 30 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |