Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 2 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 3 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 4 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 5 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 6 | Magdalene has been at Clifford chance in the City of London for 18 months . |
| 7 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 8 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 9 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 10 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 11 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |
| 12 | The only Wirral opt-out votes preceding St Mary 's College have been at grammar schools . |
| 13 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 14 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 15 | Bob Hoskins ' co-star Dennis Hopper has been at loggerheads with Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , demanding script rewrites . |
| 16 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 17 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 18 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 19 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 20 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 21 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 22 | ‘ The boy 's been at school ! ’ he laughed . |
| 23 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 24 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 25 | Recently a firm of contractors employed by Lancashire County Council have been at work erecting an AONB Forest of Bowland boundary plinth and sign in the vicinity . |
| 26 | Recently a firm of contractors employed by Lancashire County Council have been at work erecting an AONB Forest of Bowland boundary plinth and sign in the vicinity . |
| 27 | This vast expanse of grass and heather is a cover concealing a realm of magic and mystery , where since the beginning of time nature has been at work slowly evolving an intricate subterranean labyrinth of caverns , grottoes and canals carved in beautiful designs by the agency of running water . |
| 28 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 29 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |
| 30 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |