Example sentences of "been [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 2 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 3 | They should have been stopped at the block … ’ |
| 4 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 5 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 6 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 7 | To our consternation no one had been posted at the railway overbridge , some 300 yards down the road where the locomotive 's details could be taken . |
| 8 | I personally do not have time for delays in this operation , and my approach has been ratified at the highest levels . |
| 9 | I am , however , suggesting that many significant economies of scale have been realised at the level of the large enterprise comprising a number of units of production rather than at plant , or operating unit , level . |
| 10 | Others were part of basic research on living tissue , and their benefits could not have been realised at the time . |
| 11 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |
| 12 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 13 | If permission for copying is refused by the publisher , it may be that the work has been withdrawn at the request of its composer . |
| 14 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 had been sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 15 | Although religious history may be interpreted to indicate that this struggle has been undertaken at the behest of , or in support of , some extraterrestrial ‘ god ’ , this is not really correct , and none of those ancient ‘ gods ’ must be allowed to usurp the rightful place of the emerging Created God . |
| 16 | An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University . |
| 17 | But while new projects were opening , the Board was forced to depart from its Shetland Islands project which had been undertaken at the invitation of the Shetland Islands Council and the Island Council Charitable Trust . |
| 18 | In the light of the foregoing material and pending the conclusion of the investigation that has been undertaken at the request of the Chief Executive , the board resolved that , in the interests of investors , Norwich Union should for the time being and with immediate effect be prohibited from : ( 1 ) accepting any new investment business from the Winchester Group or any company representative of the Winchester Group and in particular entering into any investment contract with any investor introduced by the Winchester Group or any such company representative ; and ( 2 ) soliciting investment business from members of the public through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives . |
| 19 | And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 20 | I think we have to be very careful we do n't take reactions which actually negate some of the work and the common sense that has been undertaken at the moment . |
| 21 | It contains all the elements that have normally been placed at the centre of crisis theory in the Marxist tradition , i.e. the falling rate of profit , excess capital , excess commodities . |
| 22 | It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’ |
| 23 | Something had been placed at the top of the steps , a human figure , bundled up in a blanket . |
| 24 | If your item of concern has been placed at the end of the agenda , the probability is that time will run out and you may want to get it moved forward . |
| 25 | Yesterday flowers had been placed at the spot where the young schoolfriends died and a simple wooden cross bore the message ‘ To Deanne and Nadine with love . ’ |
| 26 | A case , or carton , something like that , had been placed at the bottom . |
| 27 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 28 | He had been placed at the head of the table , a Solomon come to judgement , but a far from happy one . |
| 29 | Her trunk had been placed at the foot of her bed , whose curtains , in harmony with those at the window , were of heavy glazed chintz patterned with flowers . |
| 30 | A priority order form has been placed at the end of this section . |