Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] 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 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The idea for this had been offered at a full NEC meeting by Mr Wallace of the Irish Division . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 18 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |