Example sentences of "been [verb] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |
| 2 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
| 3 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 4 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 5 | Although early and middle Iron-Age pottery has been located at various points , there is no evidence for any late Iron-Age settlement underlying the town , where the earliest levels are apparently military . |
| 6 | Since then , various parts have been occupied at different times by a multitude of smaller firms . |
| 7 | In considering the case of B Ltd , he stated that it was easier to conclude that the mezzanine platforms were plant as the four platforms had been installed at different times , covered only 60% of the floor area and one had actually been dismantled . |
| 8 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 9 | Traditionally , the holes have been spaced at regular intervals along the tube — but Western Electric says it has discovered that this is not the ideal approach . |
| 10 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 11 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 12 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 13 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 14 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |
| 15 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 16 | Follow up geophysical work has been done at selected sites to assess what water resources are actually present . |
| 17 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 18 | Hansen has been seen at various shows , demonstrating Jim Dunlop pedals . |
| 19 | Most assets have been valued at current values . |
| 20 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 21 | In some cases the overlay will not be completely accurate as the different maps may have been produced at different times by different teams of surveyors . |
| 22 | Walnut , beech and deal have also been used at different times . |
| 23 | The shares , probably worth around 15p on fundamentals had been sold at various prices up to a staggering 45p . |
| 24 | All other Palestinian higher-learning institutions had been reopened after having been closed at various times since the intifada started . |
| 25 | The defences have been sampled at various points , revealing an interesting sequence . |
| 26 | The meat , which is part of the EC 's deep-frozen beef mountain , had been bought at low prices by food-processing firms . |
| 27 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 28 | It is a trend which has been noted at other fairs . |
| 29 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 30 | ‘ The list includes special deals which have been negotiated at specific hotels as well as agreements with two major chains , ’ said . |