Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 2 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 3 | Executives from Ford , which has acknowledged subscribing to the league , have been called to appear at an industrial tribunal next month . |
| 4 | Far too many handicapped young people have been condemned to operate at a lower level of education and achievement than their abilities warrant because of lack of facilities for further and higher education . |
| 5 | Mr Gollnisch has been invited to speak at a Conservative fringe meeting in Blackpool , organised by Western Goals UK , a movement run by the former Tory MP , Sir Patrick Wall . |
| 6 | We first encounter Anderson , a professor of ethics , on board a plane for Prague , where he has been invited to speak at a philosophy conference . |
| 7 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 8 | For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 . |
| 9 | ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Engineers have been forced to operate at a snail 's pace to counter the danger of the bridge deteriorating further . |