Example sentences of "had been [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 10 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 11 | The issue of readability had been discussed at an open library committee meeting attended by other staff , where a computer programme for reading-level assessment had been demonstrated . |
| 12 | Its first draft , presented in April 1991 [ see p. 38154 ] , had been discussed at an informal meeting of EC Foreign Ministers in Dresden on June 2-3 , and had been criticized by Jacques Delors , the President of the EC Commission , supported by the Netherlands , Belgium and Germany . |
| 13 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 14 | The reform package , which had been agreed at a constitutional conference which had included federal , provincial and native leaders , was a successor to the Meech Lake Accord which had collapsed in 1990 . |
| 15 | Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power . |
| 16 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 17 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 18 | There was also a note to the effect that a suitable premises , with stock , had been offered at a reasonable price , in a similar location to her present premises . |
| 19 | The idea for this had been offered at a full NEC meeting by Mr Wallace of the Irish Division . |
| 20 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 21 | Police also said that the 12-year-old 's family had been rehoused at an undisclosed address after disturbances by angry crowds outside their home at Kirkdale in Liverpool . |
| 22 | He had been educated at a progressive , artistic school in the south , with a radical tradition very different ( despite its ostensible similarities ) from the one in which Alix had been reared . |
| 23 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 24 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |