Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Access card had been found at a meeting of the Liberal Democrats for Eastern Region contracts , and , M S Sue Sutton , who was a candidate for |
| 2 | Its various creepers , wisteria , magnolia grandiflora and Russian vine had been checked at the level of the first floor . |
| 3 | Her trunk had been placed at the foot of her bed , whose curtains , in harmony with those at the window , were of heavy glazed chintz patterned with flowers . |
| 4 | His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies . |
| 5 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 6 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 7 | Mogadishu airport had not been used for relief supplies since June 1 , when food aid had been stolen at gunpoint . |
| 8 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 9 | Such a collapse had been hinted at in molecular dynamics computer simulations . |
| 10 | In Emmerson ( reported at [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 194 with Commentary ) the tape had been played at trial , and the question was whether the jury were entitled to be provided with a copy of it after retiring , so that they could hear again the all-important tone of voice of the officer conducting one of the interviews . |
| 11 | Mrs Lowe Lauri , a sister at the Royal , said she understood a request for an ambulance had been made at 5pm . |
| 12 | An attempt had been made at strangulation . |
| 13 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 14 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 15 | On May 3 the Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that 65 " extremists and rioters " had been arrested at Imbabah , that rioting had been quelled at Isna in the Qina governorate — where in the previous week " three extremists " had killed a guard of the state security investigation department — and that he intended " to strengthen the security presence " in various governorates over the following two weeks . |
| 16 | Hilda Lodge said that some disappointment had been expressed at the lack of equipment used in display items and very little live piano music , which is our forte , was used to accompany them . |
| 17 | Laboratory studies in zoology had been established at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard under Louis Agassiz in the mid century . |
| 18 | First , a gap had been found at the bottom end of the market , conveying ( or transferring ) small terraced houses with local authority mortgages . |
| 19 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 20 | The key had been left at the hotel pending their arrival . |
| 21 | Often the types of process in one class are very wide , consequently changing from one use to another can lead to odour nuisance yet no planning permission is required unless a condition had been attached at the time of the original planning permission prohibiting a change of use even within the same use class . |
| 22 | That poetry had been written at Lausanne more than twenty years before , in a world which was now disappearing . |
| 23 | Much of the recent work had been written at the ‘ macro ’ level , relying on statistics of national income or on general surveys of the economy . |
| 24 | The power of flight , the companionship of joy and dream had been bought at too high a price . |
| 25 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 26 | The issue of readability had been discussed at an open library committee meeting attended by other staff , where a computer programme for reading-level assessment had been demonstrated . |
| 27 | The law had been given at Mt Sinai . |
| 28 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 29 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 30 | Shortly afterwards Dawes wrote to the Board complaining that a flag had been hoisted at the workhouse on the occasion of his leaving . |