Example sentences of "been [vb pp] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it has been formed at a mid-oceanic ridge new oceanic lithosphere subsides as it moves away from a spreading centre and becomes cooler , thicker and more dense ( see Section 17.6.3 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 4 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 5 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 6 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first , having to do with the very nature of the notations , is that some of them have certainly been added at a later date . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The result of our cursory glance at the attempts that have been made at a new perspective on law and the legal system is thus both clear and complicated : the legal system can no longer be understood to be monolithic , but is differentiated , and this differentiation is structured by its relationship to other social sub-systems ; law , moreover , has a different ideological role in different national legal cultures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 15 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 16 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 17 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | These three vices are universally regarded as so detrimental to a horse , and so incurable , that if one is detected in a horse soon after it has been sold at a reputable horse auction , it is grounds for its sale to be cancelled . |
| 22 | Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power . |
| 23 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 24 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Details about dates of employment and health physics records were obtained for all parents confirmed as having been employed at a nuclear establishment before their child 's cancer was diagnosed ( or for controls , before the date of diagnosis of the corresponding case ) . |
| 27 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 28 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 29 | The earlier text is believed to have been written originally in Syriac and to have been found at a Christian monastery in Khuzistan , south-west Iran , near the Iraqi border . |
| 30 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |