Example sentences of "been [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 4 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 5 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 6 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 7 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 8 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 9 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 10 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 11 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 12 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 13 | This is because the aperture problem has been overcome at some level in their visual system . |
| 14 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 15 | I am surprised not only that 20 minutes is left to me , but that education has been tabled at this stage in the debate on the Loyal Address . |
| 16 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 17 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 18 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |