Example sentences of "it have been [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health .
2 Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles .
3 It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant .
4 In the Littlewoods case in which the court upheld a 12 month restraint allied to protectable business secrets , Lord Denning MR said that the information acquired by Harris was confidential : " It has been acquired at great expense and by great expertise by Littlewoods .
5 The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon .
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