Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] at a " 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 | A verdict of suicide has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a twenty one year old Oxford University student . |
| 3 | A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a tourist shot dead by terrorists while on holiday in Egypt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes . |
| 6 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |
| 7 | The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Marilyn has been licensed at a special service at St John 's Church there , effectively joining the ministry team in the parish of Egremont . |
| 10 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 11 | The coach house has been converted at a reasonable sum drawn from the annual budget . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The pest , a tiny fawn-coloured mite called varroa which can cause havoc in commercial hives , has been discovered at an apiary run by the Torbay Beekeepers ' Association . |
| 14 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 15 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 16 | The achievement has been bought at a price . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 21 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 22 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 23 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 24 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 25 | It would be more advantageous to study an action picture which has been captured at a lower camera speed . |
| 26 | A deal to avert a possible collapse of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) has been discussed at a secret meeting in Madrid . |
| 27 | Like other Third World countries its quest for World Bank-induced export earnings through cash crops has been purchased at a high price with no apparent significant complementarity in food crops . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |