Example sentences of "have been [verb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close comparison of BBC and ITN footage shows that the BBC film has in shot the man who was most severely beaten by the police , but that the film has been cut at precisely the point when the policeman begins to set about him with his truncheon . |
| 2 | This stem has been cut at too sharp an angle , and too close to the bud . |
| 3 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Worse , however , is the fact that the image is also fixed in its proportions and , unless it has been created at precisely the size you wish to use it , it will distort when manipulated by the publishing package . |
| 6 | I think that 's a very good question , I think though that that has been looked at very very thoroughly by the County Council , and certainly there are only a very limited number of options available around York which would actually meet the needs of York . |
| 7 | It er it , we , certainly the expansion of Tadcaster has been looked at quite thoroughly , though not only by the local authorities , but by the private sector , and the , and I think the the agreement has been that it it is not possible at the scale which is required to meet the needs of Greater York . |
| 8 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 9 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 10 | After an initial post-independence surge , primary school enrolment has been held at around 46 per cent by the destruction of rural schools and the resulting lack of access for many nominally enrolled pupils . |
| 11 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 12 | In its efforts to raise revenue to pay off the debt , Maxxam has been logging at twice the usual rate . |
| 13 | The division into a 13-year race and a I 7-year race has been arrived at independently , no fewer than three times . |
| 14 | It has been valued at around £95,000 ( $165,000 ) . |
| 15 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 16 | The damage has been put at more than 60,000 pounds . |
| 17 | Despite the leading coalition partners ' endless trumpeting of their unimpeachable moral purpose — all that pious flannel about ‘ the liberation of Kuwait ’ — those believing the true purpose to be ensuring the flow of oil , has been measured at over 40% . |
| 18 | In Bermuda lava has been found at much shallower depths ranging from 20 to 170 m ( approx. 70–570 ft ) approximately , but in the Bahamas a deep boring ended at nearly 450 m ( 1 500 ft ) in Lower Cretaceous dolomite . |
| 19 | The fen violet has been found at only two sites , and the New Forest cicada and the water beetle at only one each . |
| 20 | The cost of processing such a large number of documents has been estimated at approximately 10% of the invoice value of the goods -a significant cost by any standard . |
| 21 | Indeed , the risk on acute psychiatric units has been estimated at over 50 times the risk in the general population ( Fernando and Storm 1984 ) . |
| 22 | It has indeed made a saving of some £3 billion , but the costs of the rebates paid so far has been estimated at around three times that much . |
| 23 | The insect population of a single large tussock has been estimated at more than 1,000 individuals . |
| 24 | The wage bill for the two month period has been estimated at more than £13,000 . |
| 25 | I like it when a Prince song is overwrought , has been worked at neurotically ( Prince 's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism , but never is stifled by attention , because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man 's polyrhythmic perversity ) . |
| 26 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 27 | It should have been done at once ; now the moment of surprise is lost . ’ |
| 28 | He added : ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The operators should have been given at least another 12 months , rather than having to face a judge and jury overnight decision by someone on the Intervention Board . ’ |
| 30 | Owen would have told the man to run on but without him he would have been lost at once . |