Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 2 | A number of branches have been formed both at home and overseas and many more graduates who are not currently members of the Association , or with whom the association has lost touch , have been enquiring about membership . |
| 3 | Having been educated mainly at home , she attended Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1881 to 1882 and was encouraged by the headmistress , Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , to become a writer . |
| 4 | It had been hijacked earlier at Snugville Street , in the Shankill area . |
| 5 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 6 | However , tests have been carried out at Manchester University , England , to find out whether we also possess a natural magnetic sense . |
| 7 | Finally , during my time in post I have lectured to every one of the Senior Engineering Management courses that have been carried out at RAF Cranwell . |
| 8 | Over the past 12 years , a series of large scale surveys of the British mechanical engineering industry have been carried out at CURDS . |
| 9 | Field programmes including drilling and sampling have now been carried out at Sonora , Mexico , in Barbados , in the north-western dry zone of Sri Lanka , and near Madras , India . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell . |
| 11 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Spence 's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby . |
| 13 | Mr Prescott wanted to know why the order had been made before the Safety Authority was satisfied with the non-segregation procedure ; whether the design was ‘ open ended ’ and could be adapted to separate passengers from their cars ; and whether , by acting before getting firm permission from the authority , the order had been made entirely at Eurotunnel 's own risk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 16 | The fugitive and his boatmen had been washed ashore at Rossinish on Benbecula , in April , after a night of violent storms in the Minch : |
| 17 | The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University . |
| 18 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 19 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 20 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 21 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 22 | A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures . |
| 23 | A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch . |
| 24 | Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south . |
| 25 | An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died . |
| 26 | To date , in certain areas of company law , minimum standards have been laid down at Community level , and apply to companies throughout the EC , irrespective of where they are incorporated or have their central administration . |
| 27 | It is , however , a much better thing for the Lions that England 's formerly mighty but now creaking pack should have been found out at Lansdowne Road rather than in the Land of the Long White Cloud . |
| 28 | Courses had been marked out at Gandale Bivouac Camp , which is part of Catterick Garrison 's training area . |
| 29 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 30 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |