Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at the " in BNC.

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1 A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 .
2 In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ?
3 They should have been stopped at the block … ’
4 Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events .
5 She will ensure that women 's voices are heard at the highest level .
6 Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year .
7 Ages are calculated at the beginning of the tax year .
8 If you are dismissed at the end of your first year , concentrating on the terms of the contract leads to the conclusion that you ordinarily worked in Great Britain , whereas looking at what actually happened leads to the opposite conclusion .
9 Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head .
10 Our eyes are placed at the front of the head , a position shared by the eyes of cats , birds of prey and other hunters .
11 As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact .
12 At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI .
13 Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms .
14 To aid the student , particularly important concepts or definitions are enclosed in boxes , questions ( without answers ) are given at the end of each chapter , and there are lists of sources of further reading .
15 If the same dose and type of insulin are given at the same time each day and either the food intake or the amount of physical activity fluctuates to a significant degree , the consequences are going to be unacceptable hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia .
16 Detailed explanatory notes for each species are given at the end of the book in the Appendix , covering such topics as distribution of the predator species , their habitats , hunting methods and food preferences and a summary of their diet and how it may be biased .
17 It is possible to buy well-designed general purpose application forms ( details are given at the back of the book ) .
18 The cumulative runtimes from the beginning of the movie are given at the right hand edge of the page .
19 References to studies of cultural differences are given at the end of the chapter .
20 full details of the Protection Plan are given at the back of this leaflet , and examples of the cost are shown on the insert .
21 Further details of this valuable cover are given at the back of this leaflet .
22 Further details of the Protection Plan are given at the back of this leaflet .
23 Each unit is written in a readable and detailed style , and every chapter ends with a ‘ chapter challenge ’ , which includes key points covering important concepts in the chapter and multiple-choice questions , for which the answers are given at the back of the book .
24 ( The answers are given at the end of the chapter . )
25 Regular tests , usually written tests , which are given at the end of a section of the syllabus , were also termed coursework " .
26 6 Make sure that at least one and preferably two contact names are given at the foot of the release and the caption together with phone numbers for both day and night .
27 References to the internalism/externalism debate are given at the end of ch. 9 .
28 Some possible interpretations of this difference are given at the end of this chapter .
29 Addresses are given at the end of the prospectus .
30 Contact should be established in the first instance through the Schools Liaison Officer or the Faculty of Science and Engineering whose addresses are given at the back of this prospectus .
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