Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 2 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 3 | By 1932 Gallacher had been joined at Chelsea by his two fellow internationalists Jackson and Cheyne and the three Scots became the focus of an acrimonious dispute about wages , trade unionism and bonus payments . |
| 4 | Paintings from the last decade of his life have been gathered at Marlborough until 27 April . |
| 5 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly turquoise has frequently been excavated at sites on the Iranian plateau , notably at Hissar and Yahya . |
| 7 | The 3500 and its sister , the Healey Silverstone , have been developed at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | His situation was not in this respect dissimilar from that of the leaders of the North of England Sailors and Seagoing Firemen 's Friendly Association , which had been formed at Sunderland in 1879 by John Beresford and was commonly known as the " Sunderland Union " . |
| 9 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 10 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 11 | Pitch and dressing room charges have been pegged at £1.35 for a number of years , but now Dundee District Council is proposing a £4 charge . |
| 12 | ‘ We are aware that part of a substantial City office building was recently announced as having been let at £40 per sq ft , ’ said the property analysts . |
| 13 | who would have been educated at home by her mother . |
| 14 | The £2.6m first phase of new technology and mining techniques has been installed at Point of Ayr . |
| 15 | The possible role of lexical accessibility in determining the syntax of a speaker 's utterances has been considered at length by Bock ( 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Much of this has been targeted at courses in science , mathematics and engineering . |
| 17 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 18 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 19 | A replica of the tower has been built at Thiepval as a tribute to Ulster soldiers killed in the battle . |
| 20 | A new plant has been built at Billingham in the UK to increase the production capacity of ICI Specialties ' biodegradable resin , ‘ Biopol ’ , to 300 tonnes per year . |
| 21 | ‘ The decision was then taken to significantly extend this Company 's activities and a new 25,000 square foot facility has been built at Musaffah in the industrial area of Abu Dhabi . |
| 22 | Piotr Jaroszewicz , 83 , had been strangled at home near Warsaw after apparently being tortured . |
| 23 | These options have been granted at prices of 12.5pStg. , 14.5pStg. and 29pStg. and are exercisable between December 1995 and May 1998 . |
| 24 | Once the court papers have been served on the debtor and an enquiry has been made at court regarding the debtor 's intentions , the result of those enquiries is input to the computer and the appropriate papers for obtaining Decree are produced . |
| 25 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 26 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 27 | But when they were late in arriving , Mr Stokes rang the agent and was told that they had been impounded at Dover for five weeks while checks were made for drugs . |
| 28 | Cells fitted with diamond windows have been operated at pressures of over one million atmospheres at the Carnegie Institute in Washington . |
| 29 | A couple have been robbed at gunpoint on a dream holiday to Disney World . |
| 30 | A pensioner has been robbed at gunpoint after confronting two masked men who 'd broken into her home . |