Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 2 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 3 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 4 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 5 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 6 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 7 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 8 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 9 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 10 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 11 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
| 12 | In an unexpected coda to a recent art saga , the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth announced in December that the original frame to Thomas Eakins 's ‘ The Swimming Hole ’ had been discovered at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , which donated it to the museum . |
| 13 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 14 | Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge . |
| 15 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 16 | Malcolm Kennedy had been jailed at the Old Bailey in September 1991 for allegedly kicking to death his cellmate , Patrick Quinn , at Hammersmith police station in west London early on Christmas Eve , 1990 . |
| 17 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
| 18 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 19 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 20 | The gastric mucosa was inspected 0 and 180 minutes after ethanol had been given at the macroscopic , light , and scanning electron microscopic level . |
| 21 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 22 | Nor are all assessments entirely reliable : Brooke Priory in Rutland owned goods valued at £52 and had no serious debts when it was dissolved in 1536 yet fourteen years earlier it had been assessed at a mere £13 6s 8d . |
| 23 | The Billabong had been saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 24 | Eddy was working with mathematician Aram Boornazian on a study of measurements of the Sun 's diameter which had been made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1836 and 1953 . |
| 25 | A basic minimal consensus on political union had been achieved at an informal meeting of the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers in Parknasilla ( Ireland ) on May 19-20 . |
| 26 | Mark Allen , aged 23 , of Stockwell , south London , had been acquitted at the Old Bailey on Thursday of murdering Victor Johnson , 57 , and his wife Audrey , 54 , but convicted of manslaughter , incitement to arson and attempting to pervert the course of justice . |
| 27 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 28 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 29 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 30 | The figure summarises information on timing of father 's employment in the nuclear industry and radiation exposure , in relation to the birth of his child , for the seven fathers ( four cases and three controls , of whom three and two respectively had been employed at the atomic weapons establishments in the area ) who were issued with dosimeters . |