Example sentences of "been [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 32 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 33 | South Devon Coroner Hamish Turner 's comments on the fact that around half of the 32 people who had committed suicide in the area in the past year had , at some stage , been treated at the centre . |
| 34 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 35 | Gravestones and wreaths have been wrecked at the town 's public cemetery on a number of occasions by drunken youths . |
| 36 | The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 37 | Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards . |
| 38 | In fact , a case where the image of sex fiend has been developed at the search stage is often over quickly at the trial stage . |
| 39 | Sometimes one aspect of our being has been developed at the expense of the other . |
| 40 | A fortnight after the production of Giasone , another opera with a libretto by Cicognini had been given at the opening of yet another Venetian opera-house , Santi Apostoli . |
| 41 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 42 | ‘ Insufficient consideration had been given at the design and certification stage to the stress distribution in the horizontal stabiliser spar structure following a top chord failure in the region outboard of the closure rib … ’ |
| 43 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 44 | The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries . |
| 45 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 46 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Change in firm 's circumstances Where the circumstances of the firm have changed in some material respect which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the date of the agreement . |
| 49 | A makeshift stage had been erected at the staircase end and , above it , Class 1 had hung a large , hand-painted Islamic crescent moon and star . |
| 50 | Mr Piggott clicked his false teeth in disapproval at such wicked waste , and shook his head at the ‘ FOR SALE ’ board which had been erected at the gate the week before . |
| 51 | ‘ A new hair-carding shop ( No. 54 ) has recently been erected at the west end of the works , built of corrugated iron , … adjacent is a small mortar grinding plant and concrete breaker for the use of the building department . |
| 52 | Road signs were supposed to have been erected at the mouth of the carriageway as soon as Benin 's car had passed through , warning motorists of an impending dynamite blast and rerouting them on to another section of the motorway . |
| 53 | Ram-raiders used a stolen van to break into the Wineways store in Edgehill Road , Scarborough , just two months ago after bollards had been erected at the store to prevent such attacks . |
| 54 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 55 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 56 | When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south . |
| 57 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 58 | If commitment accounting is adopted during the financial year , the conversion to ordinary accruals at the year-end involves the following book entry : in respect of all the orders issued for which invoices have not been received at the year-end . |
| 59 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 60 | The length of the progress line is then drawn to represent the percentage of the job that has been completed at the review date . |