Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] have been [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's programme has been aimed at preventing this scenario . |
| 2 | THE equine star of BBC 's Trainer has been sold at Ascot Sales and is to have a new career as a three-day eventer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 7 | Dickie 's place had been booked at birth . |
| 8 | This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester . |
| 9 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 10 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 11 | Yet at 1130 hrs that morning a Corps Commander 's Conference had been held at 5 Corps HQ [ Kp 217 ] at which one of the main topics discussed had been " the Evacuation of the Cossacks to the Russians " and under this heading the decision had been taken that : " Divs will be prepared to shoot at Cossacks to enforce the evacuation plan . " |
| 12 | In December 1330 Edward wrote to David asking him to give effect to his father 's promise and restore Wake and Beaumont to their Scottish lands ; but the Scots prevaricated , and in the autumn of 1331 Edward 's policy towards Scotland hardened , influenced no doubt by the fact that the final payment of Bruce 's indemnity had been received at midsummer . |
| 13 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 14 | The cost of this year 's show has been put at £350,000 , but admission prices have been kept at £6 for adults , £5 for senior citizens and £3 for children . |
| 15 | The cost of this year 's show has been put at £350,000 , but admission prices have been kept at £6 for adults , £5 for senior citizens and £3 for children . |
| 16 | Each member 's contribution has been held at £15,000 for the second year . |
| 17 | The results of the survey were published in the spring of 1988 : the views expressed in it naturally reflected the fact that the Action Plan 's implementation had been done at almost breakneck speed and had required much effort on the part of FE lecturers . |
| 18 | I repeated the details of how so many of Green 's family had been murdered at Auschwitz . |
| 19 | Police also said that the 12-year-old 's family had been rehoused at an undisclosed address after disturbances by angry crowds outside their home at Kirkdale in Liverpool . |
| 20 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 21 | 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 . |