Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 2 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 3 | The following figures have been extracted from our management accounts , are calculated at constant exchange rates and take account of the effect of UK Refining : |
| 4 | In some areas , such as the Three Valleys water company region north of London , aquifers have not been replenished at all . |
| 5 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 6 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 7 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 8 | Less fabric is taken up when they are placed at this angle , preventing the seamline from reducing and puckering . |
| 9 | Example heads of agreement are given at 1104.1 ( detailed version ) and 1104.2 ( shorter version ) . |
| 10 | These calculations allowed for £2.1 million to be made available for further community developments in Riverside to follow the closure ( all these figures are given at 1986 prices ) . |
| 11 | Example definitions for stock and fixed assets are given at 1104.3 . |
| 12 | These displays are given at localized courting places called leks . |
| 13 | The loci classici are Allen v McAlpine [ 1968 ] 2 QB 299 and Birkett v James [ 1978 ] AC 297 ; the principles are given at 25/¼ , 25/1/5 , and 25/1/6 in The Supreme Court Practice 1988 . |
| 14 | Access into the high rack area is normally restricted to the high lift trucks and all other personnel are excluded — except for occasional maintenance and monitoring checks when moveable barriers are erected at each end of the aisle to prevent such entry . |
| 15 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 16 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 17 | Little scientific data has ever been released to assess the effect of the killing on the dolphin population , and much of what is known about the hunt has been gathered at great personal risk by non-government organisations . |
| 18 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 19 | In the late fourth century Bagadates and Ariaramnes , two more , obvious , Persians , are honoured at another Karian sanctuary , Amyzon ( J. and L. Robert , 1983 , Amyzon , i. p. 97 ) . |
| 20 | Locke 's views on this matter are similar to Gassendi 's , but are developed at greater length . |
| 21 | " In many of the projects surveyed , consultation with affected populations and local non-governmental organisations ( NGOs ) had been limited at best . |
| 22 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 23 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 24 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 25 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 26 | This is because students from other parts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are joined at each of the four campuses by a growing number of overseas students , reflecting the reputation of Northern Ireland for offering warm hospitality to its visitors and the tradition of the University of Ulster as a host to students from other countries . |
| 27 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 28 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 29 | So if w = 0.5 , this year 's expected rate would be 13 per cent ; if w = 1 , this year 's expected rate would be 16 per cent ( in this case , the expectation is said to have been fully adjusted ) ; if w = 0 , the expectation would be 10 per cent ( that is , it would not have been adjusted at all ) . |
| 30 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |