Example sentences of "have been [verb] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The decision was then taken to significantly extend this Company 's activities and a new 25,000 square foot facility has been built at Musaffah in the industrial area of Abu Dhabi . |
| 2 | A new plant has been built at Billingham in the UK to increase the production capacity of ICI Specialties ' biodegradable resin , ‘ Biopol ’ , to 300 tonnes per year . |
| 3 | A replica of the tower has been built at Thiepval as a tribute to Ulster soldiers killed in the battle . |
| 4 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 5 | Once the court papers have been served on the debtor and an enquiry has been made at court regarding the debtor 's intentions , the result of those enquiries is input to the computer and the appropriate papers for obtaining Decree are produced . |
| 6 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 7 | A man of 77 has been robbed at knifepoint by two raiders who broke into his home . |
| 8 | A pensioner has been robbed at gunpoint after confronting two masked men who 'd broken into her home . |
| 9 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
| 10 | A tax of 0.6% has been withheld at source on the amount of bank deposits , term and deposit certificates etc held at 9 July 1992 . |
| 11 | In addition an annual match against the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society has been played at Henley in May each year since 1977 . |
| 12 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 13 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 14 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 15 | The regional non-domestic rate has been fixed at 41.9p in the pound by the Scottish Office — the same as the sum levied in the current financial year . |
| 16 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 17 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |
| 18 | Fred has been employed at Dubbingtons for the past twelve years . |
| 19 | As the management will be aware , Fred has been employed at Dubbingtons for the past twelve years . |
| 20 | A ( 1931 ) nineteen thirty one Lagonda sports car has been bought at auction by a man who owned it more than forty years ago . |
| 21 | The possible role of lexical accessibility in determining the syntax of a speaker 's utterances has been considered at length by Bock ( 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 23 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 24 | The subject has been discussed at length over the past few weeks on Usenet , the international electronic-mail ‘ noticeboard ’ ( see ‘ Taking Liberties ’ , NSS , 19 July 1991 ) . |
| 25 | What happened at the end of 1962 has been discussed at length by others . |
| 26 | Another form of repo which has been used at times of particularly heavy tax receipts by the government is one undertaken directly with the banks . |
| 27 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 28 | Filan , who carries an Irish passport , has been working at Saints with former England goalkeeping coach Mike Kelly after failing to impress Lou Macari during a week 's trial at Stoke . |
| 29 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 30 | Each member 's contribution has been held at £15,000 for the second year . |