Example sentences of "are [verb] 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 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 5 | These displays are given at localized courting places called leks . |
| 6 | A total of three thousand jobs are to go at British Aerospace in Hertfordshire and the North West . |
| 7 | The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times . |
| 8 | As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins . |
| 9 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 10 | Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house . |
| 11 | The tidal range in this estuary is large ( 7m at spring tides ) and large sandbanks are exposed at low tide . |
| 12 | Crash site is on mudflats that are exposed at low tide some 150 yards seaward of The Old Neptune public house , Whitstable , North Kent , and part of the aircraft 's bomb load was destroyed by an Ordnance Disposal team in November 1991 . |
| 13 | Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre . |
| 14 | About three-quarters of the judges are educated at public schools and Oxford or Cambridge , but there are also other factors that reinforce their exclusiveness : their socialization into the legal life via their training as barristers ( that is those entitled to appear in the higher courts ) and the need to demonstrate professional competence in order to ‘ take silk ’ , that is become a Queen 's Counsel and thus gain themselves a place among the elite of barristers from whom judges are chosen . |
| 15 | The patent contains eight pages of mathematical formulae which purport to prove that a microphone will have much better directional characteristics if the holes are spaced at irregular or non-linear intervals . |
| 16 | This is a good foraging tactic when the bacteria , their food , are scattered at random . |
| 17 | If assets are included at other than historical cost amount , disclose : |
| 18 | If assets are included at other than historical cost amount , show : historical cost , or difference between historical cost amount and balance sheet amount . |
| 19 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 20 | Events are organised at national , regional and local level and cater for people at all levels of ability . |
| 21 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 22 | Because they they are picked at random . |
| 23 | To summarise , then , concentration is a skill you must develop if you are to work at high efficiency . |
| 24 | The chips are targeted at embedded controls , portable and desktop computers , high-end fault-tolerant machines and supercomputers . |
| 25 | They are targeted at professional users , multimedia and natural data applications , and will be available in Europe from April 5 , though two weeks earlier in the UK . |
| 26 | Compacts are targeted at young people who are in transition from education to work . |
| 27 | Even if introns from different species are located at identical sites within genes , there may or may not be an intronic ORF present . |
| 28 | It is no coincidence that a number of smaller mints are located at royal estate-centres , and there was one quite important mint at the palace — that is , within the king 's peripatetic household . |
| 29 | They guarantee you a known minimum cash fund and/or pension on your retirement and , while the guaranteed amount is not usually very high , bonuses are added at regular intervals , according to how the investments in the fund perform . |
| 30 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |