Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 2 | Little scientific data has ever been released to assess the effect of the killing on the dolphin population , and much of what is known about the hunt has been gathered at great personal risk by non-government organisations . |
| 3 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 4 | Memorials to those who never returned have been erected at former 8th Air Force airfields . |
| 5 | They behaved towards each other like boys who had been educated at rival private schools . |
| 6 | By the end of 1988 gamma radiation dose monitors had been installed at 46 meteorological stations as part of phase 1 of the development programme . |
| 7 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 8 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 9 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 10 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 11 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 12 | Charcoal and bone remains have already been dated at 20 500 years old and further remains found beneath these are now being analysed . |
| 13 | The above statement and similar ones have been made at many public meetings called in support of an independent Ulster . |
| 14 | On the South Orkney Islands Chlamydomonas , Raphidonema and possibly Ochromonas are implicated ( Fogg , 1967 ) , similar accumulations of algae in a wide range of species have been seen at many other points around the coast ( Akiyama , 1979 ; Kol and Flint , 1968 ; for a recent review see Vincent , 1988 ) . |
| 15 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 16 | Roy Hattersley , deputy party leader , was blamed for the change in policy which has been approved at three previous conferences . |
| 17 | In the eastern part of the USA the significance of conservation measures has been demonstrated at two different scales ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 18 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 19 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
| 20 | For 1990–1 , the Total Standard Spending has been set at 4.9 billion , of which the Standard Spending on education is 2.2 billion ( 45% ) . |
| 21 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 22 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 23 | On the other hand , no personal endings are found here simply because no ordinal rank has yet been represented at this early stage of verb formation , a fact which gives us some insight into the reality underlying the term " non-finite " . |
| 24 | For maturing policies , terminal bonuses have been cut at all premium levels . |
| 25 | Besides the numerous examples recorded at Corbridge along the main east-west and north-south streets , and at Water Newton along Ermine Street and its side-streets , comparable structures have been identified at many other small towns including Alchester , Camerton , Hibaldstow , Sapperton and Sea Mills . |
| 26 | For example , the total cost of the Buxtehude experiment is 5.0 million DM , yet the saving in accident compensation has been estimated at 1.4 million DM for the first year of the experiment alone . |
| 27 | The normal value of an MP 's personality and good name has been estimated at some 1,500 votes . |
| 28 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 29 | Despite the abundance of reserves , coal production in the USSR has not been increasing at any significant rate . |
| 30 | Since then much theoretical work has been directed at this short-sighted empiricism , uncovering the pattern of cultural or ideological assumptions that supported it . |