Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culprit is the G string slot , which has been cut away at too sharp an angle , leaving the string supported on a tiny knife-edge ; this slot will wear much faster than the others , which will eventually call for a premature nut replacement , or at least some fancy manoeuvring with superglue and baking soda . |
| 2 | ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body . |
| 3 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 4 | The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers . |
| 5 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 6 | This action of InsP 3 has been studied either at the single receptor level , in single cells or in cell populations . |
| 7 | The motion of the ionized spiral arms has been studied spectroscopically at both radio and infrared wavelengths and found to be highly organized . |
| 8 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 9 | His work has been exhibited regularly at the New English Art Club , the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and Royal Watercolour Society . |
| 10 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 11 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 12 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 13 | MR GOULT 'S faithful terrier Champ has been pining away at Huyton police station . |
| 14 | She really has been treated badly at the Reeds . |
| 15 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 16 | A leaflet headed The Case for Charging Full Cost Fees , with the sub-heading Why this is felt to be necessary , has been dished out at the party political conferences . |
| 17 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 18 | In the past , non-compliant equipment has been turned away at US ports , and in the same way the European market will also be closed to non-compliant goods . |
| 19 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 20 | Syria has massive internal problems and most observers consider that apparent domestic calm has been bought only at the cost of severe repression of popular opposition to the country 's participation in the war . |
| 21 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 22 | that he or she has been signed in at the inn ; |
| 23 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 24 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 25 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 26 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 27 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 28 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 29 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 30 | Over the last year , SCOTVEC has been working hard at introducing Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) that are relevant to the needs of particular occupational sectors . |