Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed .
2 When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south .
3 I came here with full agreements in order to get this convoy to Cerska and so far I 've been blocked at every turn . ’
4 Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent .
5 The technique known as open access endoscopy , which has been introduced at the Royal Victoria Hospital , means that the inside of a patient 's stomach can be examined using a tube-like lens .
6 The national curriculum guidance which has been issued at the time of writing on the two core subjects of mathematics and science shows a welcome emphasis on statements of attainment rather than testing .
7 It would be more advantageous to study an action picture which has been captured at a lower camera speed .
8 A further criticism which has been levelled at the Keynesian model is that it tends to understate the influence of money on the real variables in the economy .
9 Because there are no unions here staff have not been involved in the strike ballot which has been held at the other four British plants .
10 They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area .
11 Japan had assumed control over Korea , Formosa , the Pescadores and the southern half of Sakhalin , which had been obtained at the end of the Russo Japanese War in 1905 .
12 The material included flammable and toxic paint residues and solvents which had been stored at a site in Essex not licensed to deal with hazardous waste .
13 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 .
14 Mr Piggott clicked his false teeth in disapproval at such wicked waste , and shook his head at the ‘ FOR SALE ’ board which had been erected at the gate the week before .
15 Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy .
16 Representatives from the 51 member states , including 29 Presidents and 10 Prime Ministers , discussed an agenda which had been prepared at the 55th session of the OAU Council of Ministers on June 22-27 , also held in Dakar .
17 Representatives from the 51 member states , including 29 Presidents and 10 Prime Ministers , discussed an agenda which had been prepared at the 55th session of the OAU Council of Ministers on June 22-27 , also held in Dakar .
18 Two formica sculptures by Richard Artschwager , ‘ Book II ( Nike ) ’ ( lot 38 , est. $150–200,000 ) and ‘ Chair ’ ( lot 40 , est. $80–100,000 ) , both of which had been exhibited at the Saatchi Collection last summer , sold inexpensively for $100,000 ( £55,600 ) and $50,000 ( £27,800 ) respectively .
19 It was announced on Jan. 22 that the United Kingdom was to return gold worth £90,000,000 ( US$160 million ) which had been deposited at the Bank of England before the annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union in 1940 .
20 Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation .
21 Eddy was working with mathematician Aram Boornazian on a study of measurements of the Sun 's diameter which had been made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1836 and 1953 .
22 By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos .
23 The release of the two Germans opened the way for the unfreezing of European Community ( EC ) aid to Lebanon which had been withheld at the insistence of the German government .
24 The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away .
25 Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese .
26 The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff .
27 In the bag were four spent cartridge cases , which had been found at the locus of the attack on Foster and Lomax .
28 Indeed , in some ways the EDC treaty went beyond the ECSC in that Article 38 , which had been included at the insistence of Italy , required the Common Assembly to study ways of establishing federal institutions along with a popularly elected legislature .
29 In the event , their most important findings were not ones which had been anticipated at the planning stage of the study .
30 And in fact at the end of the expedition ski poles which had been left at the bottom of the climb had vanished .
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