Example sentences of "been [verb] at an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 2 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 3 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | This dog would clearly have been a dual champion had he not been killed at an early age , constituting a great loss to the Australian show scene . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |