Example sentences of "been [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ANEW method of repairing bone fractures using a device like a series of ‘ plastic chinese lanterns ’ has been developed at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 6 | Had the plans for a third London airport in the Thames estuary gone ahead , the land could doubtless have been developed at considerable profit . |
| 7 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 8 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 9 | ‘ There are indications of scorching and the presence of particles of smokeless powder suggest a firearm wound , the weapon having been discharged at close range . ’ |
| 10 | The position of aircraft has also been clarified at common law . |
| 11 | Of the 766 hereditary peers listed in Dod 's Parliamentary Companion in 1987 , almost all had been educated at public school , no less than 371 of them — almost half — at Eton . |
| 12 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 13 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 14 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 15 | Following the announcement earlier this year that VCH publishing group had decided to ‘ terminate the employment ’ of Dr Andreas Papadakis , hitherto managing director and former owner of Academy Group , London , with immediate effect , a new appointment has been made at senior level . |
| 16 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 17 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 18 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 19 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 20 | Many a harassed fixture secretary has been helped at short notice over the past nine years ! |
| 21 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 22 | A flow sorted human chromosome 21 cosmid library containing 9,000 clones has been arrayed at high density onto nylon filters ( 5 ) and used as a reference library using the ICRF reference library database ( RLDB ) , ( 6 ) . |
| 23 | Agreement has been reached at national level that where an APT & c member of staff is sick on a public holiday he/she is entitled to a day off in lieu . |
| 24 | IMPROVING communications is the aim of a new Quality Circle which has been introduced at Imperial Pottery . |
| 25 | Recently money has been thrown at physical infrastructure . |
| 26 | All of its metals had been freighted at colossal expense from Earth ; there was n't a natural curve to be seen , just endless arches and spires designed like a vast piece of jewellery . |
| 27 | Dunkirk , Boulogne and Calais , through which British munitions and troops could pass in growing numbers , might have been taken at little cost during the Germans ' initial advance , now they would have to be fought for . |
| 28 | West Indian Tony Gray has been signed at great expense while former Durham County stalwart , Johnnie Johnston , is set to return to the club for one final fling . |
| 29 | In addition , inter-ministerial committees were to be set up to settle administrative questions which , until then , had been discussed at ministerial level . |
| 30 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |