Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March an indoor games evening has been arranged at Mitchell 's Social Club and a quiz night is being planned for April at the same venue . |
| 2 | ‘ The decision was then taken to significantly extend this Company 's activities and a new 25,000 square foot facility has been built at Musaffah in the industrial area of Abu Dhabi . |
| 3 | A new plant has been built at Billingham in the UK to increase the production capacity of ICI Specialties ' biodegradable resin , ‘ Biopol ’ , to 300 tonnes per year . |
| 4 | A replica of the tower has been built at Thiepval as a tribute to Ulster soldiers killed in the battle . |
| 5 | A new £6 million plant has been built at Baleycourt , France , to increase capacity from 2,000 to 10,000 tonnes , to help user industries in their conversion away from CFCs . |
| 6 | A man from the shipping line tells you your husband has been lost at sea and yon do n't even know his name . |
| 7 | A specially-devised Group-wide TNT training course has been developed at Barlaston . |
| 8 | A new vaccine against an which kills 10 million people a year worldwide has been developed at Leicester University . |
| 9 | Mr Reid , aged 55 , has been appointed at £200,000 a year . |
| 10 | A similar average annual loss has been recorded at Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey , where the rock is non-resistant London Clay . |
| 11 | Another masonry house , with a hypocaust , has been recorded at Keays Lane . |
| 12 | The most extensive array of rubbish pits has been recorded at Abbots Worthy , Hampshire where there were twelve pits which appeared to have specific functions . |
| 13 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 14 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 15 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 16 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 17 | Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 . |
| 18 | One Martian meteorite already recovered from Antarctica , which has been analysed at Milton Keynes , contained significant amounts of organic chemicals . |
| 19 | Here and there an effort has been made at renovation , but always in deplorable taste , ‘ Georgian ’ bay windows or Scandinavian-style pine porches clapped on to the Victorian and Edwardian facades . |
| 20 | Once the court papers have been served on the debtor and an enquiry has been made at court regarding the debtor 's intentions , the result of those enquiries is input to the computer and the appropriate papers for obtaining Decree are produced . |
| 21 | A prime example of waste minimisation leading to significant savings — both of cash and materials — has been made at Wilton 's Chlor-Chemicals plant . |
| 22 | A large sports centre has been made at Aviemore , mainly for winter skiing but also for the use of summer tourists . |
| 23 | A promising start has been made at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore . |
| 24 | Nylon thread has been made at Pontypool , and many smaller light industries have started on new trading estates , particularly at Hirwaun near Aberdare and Treforest near Pontypridd . |
| 25 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |
| 26 | The stylistic importance of both of these features of language has been demonstrated at length elsewhere , most notably by Leech and Short ( 1981 : 243 – 54 ) , Carter ( 1982 , 1984 ) , Fowler ( 1986 : 53 – 68 ) , Toolan ( 1988 : 146 – 82 ) and Haynes ( 1989 : 32 – 40 ) . |
| 27 | A man of 77 has been robbed at knifepoint by two raiders who broke into his home . |
| 28 | A pensioner has been robbed at gunpoint after confronting two masked men who 'd broken into her home . |
| 29 | FOR the first time in decades a litter of two ocelot kittens has been born at London Zoo . |
| 30 | The " significant proportion " test has been applied at obscenity trials ever since . |