Example sentences of "[conj] has been [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 2 | If you want to eat a salmon at its best , try to find one that has been netted at the river mouth or offshore early in the spring , that has been out of the water for no more than twelve hours and still has sea lice on it . |
| 3 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 4 | The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices , an important subject that has been debated at length today . |
| 5 | In the light of the foregoing material and pending the conclusion of the investigation that has been undertaken at the request of the Chief Executive , the board resolved that , in the interests of investors , Norwich Union should for the time being and with immediate effect be prohibited from : ( 1 ) accepting any new investment business from the Winchester Group or any company representative of the Winchester Group and in particular entering into any investment contract with any investor introduced by the Winchester Group or any such company representative ; and ( 2 ) soliciting investment business from members of the public through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives . |
| 6 | I think we have to be very careful we do n't take reactions which actually negate some of the work and the common sense that has been undertaken at the moment . |
| 7 | The length of the progress line is then drawn to represent the percentage of the job that has been completed at the review date . |
| 8 | The length of the progress line is then drawn to represent the percentage of the job that has been completed at the review date . |
| 9 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 10 | Labour has a clear programme for action that has been endorsed at successive party conferences , including that held last month . |
| 11 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 12 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 13 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 14 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 15 | This acrylic surface is the type that has been used at the US Open ever since it moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows . |
| 16 | Some , like Berkeley 's St Teresa of Avila have been briefly available on a BBC Artium LP ; what a pity this has n't been , or could n't be , included on the ten-disc CD issue from Decca that has been issued at the same time as the book ( see page 78 ) . |
| 17 | Will he congratulate the BMA on its wholesale condemnation of the latest Labour party smear leaflet that has been distributed at the Langbaurgh by-election ? |
| 18 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 19 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 20 | It was rescued from Woodham Brothers scrap yard in South Wales and has been stored at Swanwick Junction pending attention . |
| 21 | The acquisition of existing agencies has significantly widened our geographical representation and has been achieved at considerably lower costs than incurred by others who had previously entered the business . |
| 22 | He is a key figure in Graham Taylor 's England World Cup qualifying plans and has been valued at £3million . |
| 23 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 24 | Conan The Librarian is not now considered E7 and has been reported at possible E5 , so let's compromise at E6 . |
| 25 | Installed at a Boston residential club by the American publishers Houghton Mifflin , he wrote the account in six weeks ; it came out less than three months after the sinking it describes , and has been reprinted at intervals ever since . |
| 26 | Breeding is also unusual near the coast , but has been recorded at five sites . |
| 27 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 28 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 29 | They certainly would be required for an inner relief road erm to function effec as effectively as has been suggested at this E I P . |
| 30 | Even so , there were often areas of development which could not be accommodated with the enceinte , as has been shown at Silchester . |