Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 2 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 3 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 4 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 5 | Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards . |
| 6 | The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 7 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 8 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ALMOST 1,000 inquiries have already been received at a six- week-old community project . |
| 11 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 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 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 14 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 15 | Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m . |
| 16 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 17 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 20 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 21 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Prosecuting counsel Anne Toynbee told magistrates at Crawley , west Sussex , that the aircraft had been parked at a stand at Gatwick on Wednesday while engineers worked on an electronic fault . |
| 24 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 25 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
| 26 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 27 | An attempted raid was also been reported at a solicitors office in Horsemarket . |
| 28 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 29 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 30 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |