Example sentences of "been [vb pp] 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 Oakgrove Manor in Derry 's Magazine Street has been developed at a cost of £1.4m . |
| 3 | Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An attempted raid was also been reported at a solicitors office in Horsemarket . |
| 11 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 12 | The tape has been mixed at a Gloucester recording studio , using Steve 's voice . |
| 13 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This ruling had been made at a meeting with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The two German tourists who fell to their deaths while on holiday on Skye have been cremated at a ceremony in Perth . |
| 22 | The criticisms concerning the performance of the gearbox and the suspension could have been corrected at a Ford dealer . |
| 23 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |
| 24 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |
| 25 | If the loans were found to have been sold at a loss , the vendor would make a repayment , dependent on whether there had been a reduction in the bank 's tax liability or not . |
| 26 | The achievement has been bought at a price . |
| 27 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 28 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 29 | A length of thick blue nylon rope like this had been tied at a height of about 4 ft across the main Cattle Market Road in Northampton . |
| 30 | The neo-classical palace , whose present appearance dates from the 1770s , has been restructured at a cost of Pta4.3 billion ( £23.9 million ; $45.4 million ) by the architect Rafael Moneo to provide 6000 square metres of gallery space ( the National Gallery in London has 10,300 ) . |