Example sentences of "[noun] [been] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fact , had the cinema been invented at the time . |
| 3 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 4 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
| 5 | Have all the other classes been looked at ? |
| 6 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 7 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 8 | ( 8 ) Has any work to the seller 's knowledge been done at the property requiring planning permission or Building Regulations consent ? |
| 9 | ( a ) Examples of additional enquiries ( 1 ) Is the seller aware of any development or proposals for the development or use of property in the neighbourhood which might adversely affect the property or the amenities of persons living in it ? ( 2 ) Has the property to the seller 's knowledge been affected at any time by structural , building or drainage defects , flooding , dry rot , timber infestation or rising damp ? ( 3 ) Please confirm that any damage caused to decorations by the removal of fixtures and fittings will be made good by the seller before completion . |
| 10 | Now have these figures been reassessed at all ? |
| 11 | Have the Methodies been getting at you ? ’ |
| 12 | The Washington Post of June 4 reported that beer bottles had that day been smashed at Beijing University , a gesture aimed at the country 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping , whose last name was a homonym for the words " little bottle " . |
| 13 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 14 | State intervention has , however , by no means been kept at bay and has many impulses : the need of many enterprises for state subsidies ( which are accompanied by state controls ) ; increasing income differentials between collectives and regions under market influences ; and the willingness of centralist leaders , concerned about the way consumerism undermines socialist values , to resort to the constitutional right and responsibility of the state to act as the guardian of socialism . |
| 15 | The authenticity of the film was stressed in all the publicity and much was made of the fact that not only had the trial scenes been shot at the same time as the judge was carrying out the Detroit sentences but the film actually used his own words . |
| 16 | What had the good physician been doing at the Tower ? |
| 17 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 18 | On 29 May anti-aircraft gunners submitted claims for a Ju88 probably destroyed , but it seems likely that they had in fact been firing at one of the Italian Fiats . |
| 19 | If I could no longer eidetik effectively , had my status as apprentice and licentiate of the Brahmin of the Banal been removed at one fell stroke ? |