Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | FOOTBALL hero Paul Gascoigne 's dirty underwear has been snapped up at auction . |
| 32 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 33 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 34 | Capital expenditure has been directed mainly at improving packaging and distribution . |
| 35 | Ronny has great speed ( 4.79 over 40 meters ( with flying start — has to be ) and is the fastest player on the national team along with the captain Werder Bremen star Rune Bratseth who also has been clocked in at 4.79 ) . |
| 36 | This — Francis 's first of more than thirty novels all loosely based on the racing world — has been picked almost at random , for each of them is masterful . |
| 37 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 38 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 39 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 40 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 41 | A special meeting has been set up at 10am between traders , the NIO and the Compensation Agency . |
| 42 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 43 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 44 | An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died . |
| 45 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 46 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 47 | What I want to ask is , firstly , who are you funded by , and these teams , I note erm paragraphs three erm these nurses and so on , are they existing staff , or is this a new team , erm management team which has been set up at yet more expense to the health authority ? |
| 48 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 49 | Urine production naturally declines while the puppy is asleep , so that once it has been put outside at night , then the young dog should be able to last quite comfortably through to the morning . |
| 50 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 51 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |
| 52 | What is ‘ in the public interest ’ and what is ‘ against the public interest ’ ( there may , of course , be actions which fall into neither category ) has been interpreted differently at various times . |
| 53 | Concern has been mounting recently at the potential for unnecessary duplication of its activities with those of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies ( ARPS ) . |
| 54 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |
| 55 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 56 | This collection has been brought together at a time when the Banjara people are gravitating towards the cities relinquishing their nomadic life and abandoning their dynamic textile art . |
| 57 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 58 | Much of the groundwork to date on E-mail and Broadcast — a handy message service — has been carried out at little cost . |
| 59 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell . |
| 60 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |