Example sentences of "have been [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasant federations in Costa Rica , a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality , have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land , by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals . |
| 2 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 3 | The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant . |
| 4 | The rescued badgers have been recuperating at the vale wildlife sanctuary near Evesham , along with 6 others which were the victims of road accidents . |
| 5 | More than a thousand redundancies have been announced at the Belling cooker company in Burnley and Enfield . |
| 6 | It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’ |
| 7 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 8 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 9 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 10 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 11 | The badgers waiting to move in have been recouperating at the Vale Wildlife centre near Evesham . |
| 12 | A glamorous restaurant and bar surround a central palm-fringed swimming pool , and three tennis courts have been built at the foot of Anchorage Hill . |
| 13 | More than £2,000 MGB bodyshells have been built at the Faringdon factory . |
| 14 | More than thirty people have been massacred at a squatter camp near Johannesburg . |
| 15 | The question of whether Fahreddin Acemi was teaching at the Darulhadis is not without importance , since if Mecdi 's statement is correct , it would provide evidence of a certain continuity in one of the distinctive functions of the later Muftilik , from the time of Ali Cemali on , namely that the Mufti taught in an important imperial medrese ( in the case of Ali Cemali and his successors , that of Bayezid II in Istanbul ) : it ought , of course , to be recalled In this connection that Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan may well , while Mufti , have been teaching at the Manastir ( Sultan Orhan ) medrese in Bursa . |
| 16 | Eight hundred books have been printed at a cost of eighteen hundred pounds . |
| 17 | These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity . |
| 18 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 19 | 250 officers and men from the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Engineers , already equipped with their familiar United Nations blue berets , have been gathering at the Army 's Air Movement Centre at South Cerney in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | But these activities have been conducted at a loss , and the competition both from Europe and the USA has intensified . |
| 21 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 22 | I know this because I have been glancing at a magazine called Rubiks printed in English and published in Budapest . |
| 23 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 24 | All students who have become temporary residents in Northern Ireland and have been accepted at the University should apply for a Medical Card through the University Health Centre . |
| 25 | More than three million hens have been destroyed at a cost of more than £5 million and a number of egg producers have been forced out of business as a result . |
| 26 | So far , approximately 5000 patients have been assessed at the centre which is run by a multi-disciplinary team of physicans . |
| 27 | Over two and a half years of research and development have gone into Aldercare Ltd 's Abacus Practice Management package , and chartered accountants have been involved at every step . |
| 28 | Where trade unions have been involved at the level of the enterprise they have generally not sought to resist the introduction of temporary workers . |
| 29 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 30 | Many of the big European names are being churned out by British design teams who have been trained at the expense of the British taxpayer . |