Example sentences of "been [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 3 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 4 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 7 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 8 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 9 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |
| 10 | Many notable marriages have been arranged at these meetings . |
| 11 | This year , the mass has been arranged at Holy Cross Church , Hoylake Road , Birkenhead , and afterwards at Our Lady 's Parish Centre , Park Road North , Birkenhead . |
| 12 | ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 13 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
| 14 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 15 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
| 16 | Barriers have been erected at all Football League grounds in the light of recommendations made in the Lang Report ( 1969 ) — their purpose being ‘ the segregation of young people from other spectators ’ . |
| 17 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 18 | The rudimentary organs have not even yet been formed at this stage and the implications support the existence of a guiding field of electromagnetic energy as a responsible agent for the organisation of the cells of the newly forming embryo via the DNA . |
| 19 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 20 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 21 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 22 | Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters . |
| 23 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 24 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 25 | There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I . |
| 26 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 27 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 28 | Although early and middle Iron-Age pottery has been located at various points , there is no evidence for any late Iron-Age settlement underlying the town , where the earliest levels are apparently military . |
| 29 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
| 30 | More trees have been felled at this location and Councillor Brereton has requested that replacement trees be planted . |