Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 2 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 3 | Older embryos and more extended cultures benefit from a rotating system and , judging from the experience with rat embryos , the same is probably true for primitive streak stage embryos , although no direct comparison between static and rotating culture systems has been undertaken at this stage in the mouse . |
| 4 | In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies . |
| 5 | Not much enlightenment there ; the same reply could have been given at any time in the past four years . |
| 6 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 7 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 8 | He might have been discarded at international level by Ireland boss Jack Charlton . |
| 9 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
| 10 | Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms . |
| 11 | No more than 20 accidents have been reported at any junction on the route , so your estimates should not exceed this figure . ’ |
| 12 | Traditionally , the holes have been spaced at regular intervals along the tube — but Western Electric says it has discovered that this is not the ideal approach . |
| 13 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 14 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 15 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 16 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 17 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 18 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |
| 19 | In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case . |
| 20 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 21 | Sliding hiatel hernia had been seen at preoperative cineradiography in 16 of 21 patients with follow up endoscopy , but no paraoesophageal hernia . |
| 22 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 23 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 24 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 26 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 27 | Many a harassed fixture secretary has been helped at short notice over the past nine years ! |
| 28 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 29 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 30 | The meat , which is part of the EC 's deep-frozen beef mountain , had been bought at low prices by food-processing firms . |