Example sentences of "be [verb] at [det] [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| 1 | Only a small fraction of a bank 's total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time , and banks always make sure that they have the ability to meet their customers ' demands .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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 6 | The argument can not be stopped at this simple point , however . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But then the problem of the relation between internal and external modes can not be considered at this formal level only . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Standard Position Reports will be made at all designated points ( Black Triangle on charts ) , or when asked " on request " ( White Triangle ) . |
| 13 | I suggest that an attempt may well be made at some future Labour Party conference to dislodge a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | bookings can be made at any one of our T.I.C.s . |
| 16 | We shall be looking at both these important functions of the Holy Spirit in the next two chapters . |
| 17 | But in a sense it does n't really matter whether it 's one parable , whether it 's three parables , or whether it 's four parables , it 's what Jesus was trying to teach to these people , and over these next three weeks , we 're gon na be looking at these three , er illustrations that Jesus uses . |
| 18 | Each month in this column I 'll be looking at those quirky things that affect readers who care about their home . |
| 19 | The more commonly seen single resonator National guitars were a different animal altogether , and we 'll be looking at those next month . |
| 20 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the Reston , Virginia-based Visix , which reckons it missed the contract IBM awarded to Neuron Data Inc last week by a whisker , is thought to be looking at some alternative ways of marketing Galaxy , including using the Internet as a vehicle . |
| 22 | Next Sunday we shall be looking at another live education issue . |
| 23 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 24 | There are systems in research laboratories which approach this goal but increasing the number of speakers who can be recognised reduces the number of words that can be accepted at any one time . |
| 25 | Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle . |
| 26 | The view of the Pleiades is much more breathtaking with my 7 × 50 binoculars than with the lowest power I can use on my large reflector , because the small field of view with the telescope means that only a small part of the cluster can be seen at any one time . |
| 27 | A window lets you control the information that can be seen at any one time . |
| 28 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 29 | ‘ I believe this is something that should be done at all new courses and certainly at the true championship ones . |
| 30 | Secondly , the interaction of different components may also indicate that less work can be done at some other level . |