Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 2 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 3 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 4 | Eight hundred books have been printed at a cost of eighteen hundred pounds . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 6 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 7 | From what he had seen he estimated that the low-velocity rounds had been fired at a maximum of a dozen paces . |
| 8 | Elephant and large antelope bones have been found at a few African hominid sites , dated at nearly two million years . |
| 9 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 10 | ANNIVERSARY celebrations have been held at a number of branches in recent weeks but the biggest birthday of them all — 160 years — was at Hawick . |
| 11 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 12 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 13 | He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement . |
| 14 | AN URGENT review of safety procedures has been started at a London comprehensive school after two teenage pupils were questioned by detectives investigating the alleged rape of a 27-year-old teacher . |
| 15 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 16 | Although the reprocessing plant itself has been shut for annual maintenance since February , discharges have been continuing at a reduced volume . |
| 17 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 18 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 19 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 20 | An agreement on the release of the prisoners had been reached at a meeting on Jan. 14 between the Cambodian factions , Fresard and representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council . |
| 21 | Like other Third World countries its quest for World Bank-induced export earnings through cash crops has been purchased at a high price with no apparent significant complementarity in food crops . |
| 22 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 23 | Assessors are still trying to work out the full cost of the fire at the Spring Bank shopping centre , but initial estimates have been put at a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 24 | A sine qua non of environmental traffic management here has been the reduction of through traffic by closing access from the Rhein Allee Within the treated area , the most radically changed streets have been repaved at a uniform level so that there is scarcely a distinction between pavement and carriageway ( Figure 6.40 ) . |
| 25 | Both projects have been run at a substantial deficit for the sake of other ends , which include ultimate profit . |
| 26 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 27 | But these activities have been conducted at a loss , and the competition both from Europe and the USA has intensified . |
| 28 | Economic analyst Alex Henney , who has made a detailed study of the economics of nuclear power , estimates that , looking at the total balance sheet , the CEGB 's nuclear activities have been running at a substantial loss . |
| 29 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 30 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |