Example sentences of "been [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies . |
| 2 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 3 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 4 | The Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 5 | Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 8 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 9 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 10 | Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m . |
| 11 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 12 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 13 | Prosecuting counsel Anne Toynbee told magistrates at Crawley , west Sussex , that the aircraft had been parked at a stand at Gatwick on Wednesday while engineers worked on an electronic fault . |
| 14 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 15 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
| 16 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 17 | An attempted raid was also been reported at a solicitors office in Horsemarket . |
| 18 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 19 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 20 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 21 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 24 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 25 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 26 | This deployment had been decided at a Feb. 1 meeting of the Lebanese Council of Ministers , as part of a Syrian-backed initiative to restore the authority of the Lebanese government within the terms of the 1989 Taif agreement [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 27 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 28 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 29 | This ruling had been made at a meeting with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 30 | 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 . |