Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 2 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 3 | The neo-classical palace , whose present appearance dates from the 1770s , has been restructured at a cost of Pta4.3 billion ( £23.9 million ; $45.4 million ) by the architect Rafael Moneo to provide 6000 square metres of gallery space ( the National Gallery in London has 10,300 ) . |
| 4 | The waste reimported from Belgium has been stored at a tip in Gorleben , Lower Saxony , against the wishes of the state Environment Minister , former Greenpeace activist Monika Griefen . |
| 5 | The achievement has been bought at a price . |
| 6 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 7 | AN URGENT review of safety procedures has been started at a London comprehensive school after two teenage pupils were questioned by detectives investigating the alleged rape of a 27-year-old teacher . |
| 8 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 9 | Dublin Castle , the venue for the main event , the European Council of Ministers meeting on June 25 and 26 , has been refurbished at a cost of £22 million and equipped with a new conference centre . |
| 10 | I arrive at the venue to find that it has been changed at a whim to another hotel across the road ( ’ It 's much cooler and we 've got a cosy corner in the lounge , ’ the PR man assures me ) . |
| 11 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |
| 12 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Incidentally , the whole lot has been re-issued at a mid-price BMG/Eurodisc set |
| 14 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
| 15 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 16 | Since 1947 breeding has been proved at a total of 22 sites , and some other sites have probably not been found ; not every site is used , or at least recorded , each year . |
| 17 | Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis . |
| 18 | Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend . |
| 19 | A NEW seam of Welsh gold — used for every Royal wedding ring for the last 70 years — has been found at a mine near Dolgellau . |
| 20 | Those at three E of the schedule for Mr costs are agreed at a total of a hundred and forty four thousand six hundred and fifty nine pounds and fifty nine pence . |
| 21 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |