Example sentences of "have be [verb] at [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes .
2 The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study .
3 Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date .
4 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 .
5 It would be more advantageous to study an action picture which has been captured at a lower camera speed .
6 In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse .
7 The same criticism has been levelled at the lower tier , the Board , which with twelve of its twenty-one members coming from the DES and the LEAs , is regarded by many as unbalanced .
8 Guinness has been targeted at a wider audience , in particular the more individualistic drinker , a position which is supported by innovative advertising around the world .
9 But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her .
10 Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ .
11 Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on .
12 The statue is late Roman , the head of ( it is assumed ) Archbishop Adelmanno having been added at a later stage in what was believed to have been tenth-century style .
13 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 .
14 Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power .
15 On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level .
16 Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms .
17 For instance a rite of lifelong commitment for adults or of young people on the verge of adult life who have been confirmed at an earlier age .
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