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

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1 A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK .
2 Police said this morning that the Nissan vehicle had not been reported stolen at the time of the accident .
3 John Landry of Lotus Development Corp , Philippe Kahn of Borland International Inc and John Sculley of Apple Computer Inc have also been booked to speak at the event .
4 The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives .
5 Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music .
6 We first encounter Anderson , a professor of ethics , on board a plane for Prague , where he has been invited to speak at a philosophy conference .
7 This year the London Handel Orchestra have been invited to play at the festival in Hesse — Handel 's birthplace .
8 as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all .
9 As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off .
10 ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said .
11 ‘ Club directors are laymen and not football experts , which is why Liam has been asked to look at the team 's problems and advise us about what he is going to do about them .
12 Bartman , who has not been allowed to live at the house he has shared in Chelsea with his partner of 23 years , David Cohen , as a condition of bail , will now be able to return home .
13 Engineers have been forced to operate at a snail 's pace to counter the danger of the bridge deteriorating further .
14 So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work .
15 The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) .
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