Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 2 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 3 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 4 | Many notable marriages have been arranged at these meetings . |
| 5 | Barriers have been erected at all Football League grounds in the light of recommendations made in the Lang Report ( 1969 ) — their purpose being ‘ the segregation of young people from other spectators ’ . |
| 6 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 7 | Every other committee , or part of this county council has , with the exception of probation service which we did today , social services and libraries which we did at budget revue , have been funded at last year 's cash limit plus one and a half percent . |
| 8 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 9 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 10 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 16 | Fish traps have been discovered at two sites in St Helens . |
| 17 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |
| 18 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 22 | Similar occurrences have been recorded at other mills . |
| 23 | However , as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , kilns have been recorded at several sites , including Coddenham , Great Casterton , Ilchester , Sapperton and Springhead . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Forty per cent of death sentences have been overturned at federal appeal in recent years . |
| 27 | The fact that the numbers of trainees have been maintained at present levels , despite the difficult times that the industry is experiencing , is a tribute to the continuing commitment in the industry to such levels of training , assisted by the board and the work that it is doing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |
| 30 | The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors . |