Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 2 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |
| 3 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 4 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 6 | Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend . |
| 7 | An Access card had been found at a meeting of the Liberal Democrats for Eastern Region contracts , and , M S Sue Sutton , who was a candidate for |
| 8 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 9 | Prosecuting counsel Anne Toynbee told magistrates at Crawley , west Sussex , that the aircraft had been parked at a stand at Gatwick on Wednesday while engineers worked on an electronic fault . |
| 10 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 11 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 12 | Eight hundred books have been printed at a cost of eighteen hundred pounds . |
| 13 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 14 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 15 | Marilyn has been licensed at a special service at St John 's Church there , effectively joining the ministry team in the parish of Egremont . |
| 16 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 17 | The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style . |
| 18 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 19 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 20 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 21 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 22 | From what he had seen he estimated that the low-velocity rounds had been fired at a maximum of a dozen paces . |
| 23 | This deployment had been decided at a Feb. 1 meeting of the Lebanese Council of Ministers , as part of a Syrian-backed initiative to restore the authority of the Lebanese government within the terms of the 1989 Taif agreement [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 24 | Elephant and large antelope bones have been found at a few African hominid sites , dated at nearly two million years . |
| 25 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 26 | The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 27 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 28 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 29 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 30 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |