Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a small fraction of a bank 's total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time , and banks always make sure that they have the ability to meet their customers ' demands . |
| 2 | It was executed by a travelling craftsman whose stock pattern can be recognized at other local houses . |
| 3 | The MEI schedule is therefore the investment demand schedule , telling us the level of investment that will be undertaken at any given rate of interest . |
| 4 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 5 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 6 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 7 | The argument can not be stopped at this simple point , however . |
| 8 | Such a course is often open to the construction that nuclear weapons may be developed at some later stage , as at least a secondary objective . |
| 9 | If , as this example suggests , partial word strings of more than two words are necessary to guarantee selection of the correct word-string , then the number of alternative partial word strings that has to be considered at any one time will increase correspondingly , particularly when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input . |
| 10 | But then the problem of the relation between internal and external modes can not be considered at this formal level only . |
| 11 | Repair Timings : Repair timings may be considered at three distinct levels , the defer/do now decision , scheduled maintenance task sequencing and component life decisions . |
| 12 | Taking into account all the adjustments , we can see that the bank bond ought to be trading at 5.61 lower than or at a yield to maturity of 1.14 per cent higher than the comparable government bond . |
| 13 | While faecal occult blood testing is likely to prove the most cost effective method of screening large populations , genetic tests could initially be targeted at selected high risk groups . |
| 14 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 15 | Toshiba Corp is to manufacture Quantum Effect Design Inc ‘ s Orion version of the Mips Technologies Inc R4000 RISC which will be targeted at high-end personal computers running Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 16 | Thomson-CSF SA says its Syseca unit won a contract worth several million dollars to provide a turnkey system to send messages between 29 European civil aviation agencies : the contract , awarded by Eurocontrol , which oversees air traffic control across Europe , calls for installing the system by end-1993 , and the contract is part of a vast programme to link up Europe 's air traffic control systems — the present fragmentation is one of the key causes of the air travel delays ; the Central Flow Management Unit system will be based on Syseca 's Aermac product , and will collect flight plans from the World Civil Aviation Network , the SITA airline network SITA and from air traffic control centres ; it will be installed at two central sites , at Haren , Belgium and Bretigny-sur-Orge , France , using Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant systems connected via an X25 packet-switched network . |
| 17 | At least one strong appeal inherent in Christ 's teaching lay in its promise of a life of happiness to be enjoyed at some future date . |
| 18 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |
| 19 | You 'll notice at sixty five that the allowances go up , and the er by getting to sixty five you 're rewarded by a larger personal allowance and a larger married couple 's allowance , but that starts to be abated at fourteen thousand two hundred . |
| 20 | ‘ In order to achieve this , measures must be developed that can be applied at particular neuralgic points only and that will all the same have a traffic restraining effect on the whole area . |
| 21 | the novel actually seems to be written at two different times . |
| 22 | By letters dated 23 July and 30 July 1985 passing between the plaintiff and the defendant the defendant awarded the plaintiff a haulage contract for the delivery of 40 ZX Computer reader printers at an agreed total charge of £3000 ( exclusive of VAT ) such deliveries to be made at nine specified locations in the United Kingdom during August 1985 after collection from the defendant 's warehouse in Corby , Northamptonshire . |
| 23 | Standard Position Reports will be made at all designated points ( Black Triangle on charts ) , or when asked " on request " ( White Triangle ) . |
| 24 | He said the announcement would be made at eight that evening . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I suggest that an attempt may well be made at some future Labour Party conference to dislodge a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Perhaps the only genuine conclusion that can be made at this particular time of flux is that arts teachers are generally receptive to the introduction of new approaches to assessing children 's work , but only if these developments can be seen to have a positive value in helping children to be more articulate about their strengths and weaknesses , and are therefore essentially formative in character . |
| 28 | bookings can be made at any one of our T.I.C.s . |
| 29 | well as a divisional sales and marketing director I had two particular jobs , one would be erm in developing if you want the alteration of sales and marketing and the other one would be looking at overall strategic in sales and marketing |
| 30 | We shall be looking at both these important functions of the Holy Spirit in the next two chapters . |