Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 2 | Bear in mind that where a procedure is approved , the published instructions include the minimum heights to be flown at successive stages in the approach and a final obstacle clearance limit or minimum descent height recommended . |
| 3 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 4 | Five hundred NHS patients waiting for plastic surgery are to be treated at private hospitals , as part of a Government initiative to cut waiting lists . |
| 5 | In cases where there have been failures to make applications to licensing courts in time for them to be heard at statutory sittings , the Court of Session has been petitioned for directions , in virtue of its nobile officium , to licensing courts to hold special sittings to deal with non-timeous applications . |
| 6 | By contrast , a sense of ‘ community ’ seemed to be absolutely essential if village populations were to be maintained at viable levels . |
| 7 | A critical element in these surveys was that data for past and future plans were to be presented at constant prices , as it was almost impossible to interpret a time series of expenditure for a period in which prices fluctuated significantly . |
| 8 | Archives have an important role to ensure that strategic datasets , at the very least , continue to be deposited at low cost . |
| 9 | Moreover , as a resident of Edinburgh , and a fervent rugby supporter , I am at pains to understand how the Twickenham experiences described in the article are excluded from the ‘ civilised ’ experiences to be gained at other Five Nations venues . |
| 10 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 11 | These two possibilities may allow deletion-prone gene transcript concentrations to be kept at equivalent levels in both strains . |
| 12 | Boat traffic needs to be kept at modest levels in order to protect one of Britain 's most outstanding botanical treasures . |
| 13 | If spending and the community charge are to be kept at acceptable levels , staff numbers have to be kept under better control than that . |
| 14 | To devote five chapters to intonation may seem excessive , but I feel that this is necessary since the subject is difficult and complex , and needs to be explained at considerable length if the explanation is to be intelligible . |
| 15 | Dry storage facilities are to be constructed at Scottish Nuclear 's advanced gas-cooled power stations at Torness and Hunterston , planning permission permitting . |
| 16 | Also , the direct experience of ‘ contact ’ with the Führer through his major speeches , which for years had served as the ritualistic form of plebiscitary ‘ meeting ’ between the Leader and his people , to be repeated at regular intervals , took place only infrequently after 1942 . |
| 17 | Treated lambs should preferably be moved to safe pasture and if this is not possible , treatment may have to be repeated at monthly intervals until the pasture larval levels decrease in early winter . |
| 18 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 19 | These drafts provided for foreign and defence policy and for issue of police and judicial co-operation to be decided at intergovernmental level outside the normal EC decision-making machinery . |
| 20 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 21 | All major companies have rules which permit investments below a certain scale to be undertaken at divisional level without head-office approval . |
| 22 | It 's the second health issue in recent weeks in Oxfordshire to be raised at national level . |
| 23 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 24 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
| 25 | Increasingly , decisions will have to be made at European level by properly accountable European institutions . |
| 26 | The validity of these take up assumptions is obviously affected by the passage of time from late August to late September and the firmness of the UF figures is known from experience to vary widely between fields ; the estimated enrolment figures are therefore used only as an approximate guide to the Co-ordinator and senior tutors in deciding on the numbers of late offers to be made at special weekly meetings of the MAC in September . |
| 27 | Environmentalists are concerned that the impasse may undermine other important legal agreements due to be made at UNCED regarding the conservation of rare species , global warming and climate change . |
| 28 | She added : ‘ Prisoners have to be checked at regular intervals and given proper exercise . ’ |
| 29 | It is understood that a key factor in the failure of the Channel 4-IMG bid was that it would have required games to be played at certain times , a condition which was unacceptable to the players and FIDE . |
| 30 | As Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and chancellor of both universities , the Governor is to be seen at occasional military parades , or handing out diplomas . |