Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Although , at less than ½ mm in length , it is smaller than the crab louse , it appears more willing to move , and a mite has been timed at one inch per minute . |
| 34 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 35 | 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 ) . |
| 36 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 37 | ( a ) Examples of additional enquiries ( 1 ) Is the seller aware of any development or proposals for the development or use of property in the neighbourhood which might adversely affect the property or the amenities of persons living in it ? ( 2 ) Has the property to the seller 's knowledge been affected at any time by structural , building or drainage defects , flooding , dry rot , timber infestation or rising damp ? ( 3 ) Please confirm that any damage caused to decorations by the removal of fixtures and fittings will be made good by the seller before completion . |
| 38 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 39 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 40 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 41 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 42 | Lenses of Pb-Zn sulphides with up to 10 per cent Pb +&plus Zn have been found at several localities in the Dalradian , and other areas of barium-enriched sediments also occur ( Coats and others , 1984a ) . |
| 43 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 44 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 45 | Since 1950 , contracts have been negotiated at 3-yearly intervals between the Bituminous Coal Operators Association ( BCOA ) and the UMW . |
| 46 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 47 | Levels of capital grants for development plans and one-off capital schemes have , until December 1984 , been fixed at high levels for the UK 's LFA ; land improvements at 50–70% of costs depending on the scheme used and the type of improvement . |
| 48 | This is because the aperture problem has been overcome at some level in their visual system . |
| 49 | Since Operation Blade 's month-long knife amnesty began 11 days ago , more than 1,500 sharp weapons have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 50 | At the start of the third week of a month-long knife amnesty more than 2,000 blades have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 51 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 52 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 53 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 54 | Ozone has been monitored at 17 places since 1985 . |
| 55 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 56 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 57 | The shelves in the living room of Chris Cobley 's London home are filled with certificates and trophies , including numerous ‘ firsts ’ , which have been awarded at local shows for the high standard of his fish . |
| 58 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 59 | The same scheme had been tried at another camp with four ladders . |
| 60 | I am surprised not only that 20 minutes is left to me , but that education has been tabled at this stage in the debate on the Loyal Address . |