Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here with full agreements in order to get this convoy to Cerska and so far I 've been blocked at every turn . ’ |
| 2 | They 've been involved at every stage through carpentry , electrical and painting work through to its present state |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant . |
| 5 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 6 | It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’ |
| 7 | A glamorous restaurant and bar surround a central palm-fringed swimming pool , and three tennis courts have been built at the foot of Anchorage Hill . |
| 8 | More than thirty people have been massacred at a squatter camp near Johannesburg . |
| 9 | Eight hundred books have been printed at a cost of eighteen hundred pounds . |
| 10 | These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity . |
| 11 | But these activities have been conducted at a loss , and the competition both from Europe and the USA has intensified . |
| 12 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 13 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 14 | All students who have become temporary residents in Northern Ireland and have been accepted at the University should apply for a Medical Card through the University Health Centre . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So far , approximately 5000 patients have been assessed at the centre which is run by a multi-disciplinary team of physicans . |
| 17 | Over two and a half years of research and development have gone into Aldercare Ltd 's Abacus Practice Management package , and chartered accountants have been involved at every step . |
| 18 | Where trade unions have been involved at the level of the enterprise they have generally not sought to resist the introduction of temporary workers . |
| 19 | Many of the big European names are being churned out by British design teams who have been trained at the expense of the British taxpayer . |
| 20 | The two German tourists who fell to their deaths while on holiday on Skye have been cremated at a ceremony in Perth . |
| 21 | Gravestones and wreaths have been wrecked at the town 's public cemetery on a number of occasions by drunken youths . |
| 22 | It further suggested that if Fidelity 's true position had been known , then those shares would not have been purchased nor would the eventual bid have been made at the price paid or at all . |
| 23 | In the USSR it is now officially recognized that the party should be organized more democratically , and attempts have been made at the level of primary organizations to involve the rank and file more in decision-making ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , p. 201 ) . |
| 24 | Yet , these gains in certainty have been made at the expense of the title and negotiability functions , functions that will continue to be needed for the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | The Victorian pub is now threatened in two ways : because it is not understood as a historic document , and because certain isolated elements in Victorian pub design have been overemphasised at the expense of others . |
| 26 | If one had to define a volcano , the definition would have to be something like ‘ a site where molten rocks ( magma ) have been erupted at the surface of the Earth ’ . |
| 27 | I am , however , suggesting that many significant economies of scale have been realised at the level of the large enterprise comprising a number of units of production rather than at plant , or operating unit , level . |
| 28 | F. Some new port oriented industries have been started at the outport of Avonmouth . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So far the meetings have been held at the University , but the plan is to move the club 's meetings around the counties of East and West Sussex . |