Example sentences of "been [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | In an effort to sharpen the ‘ business nose ’ , Heath has been shunted sideways , to become deputy chairman , while Don Seymour , a businessman , has been installed at the head of the company with the intention of making it profitable by 1984 . |
| 62 | New loo , shower and dressing room facilities have been installed at the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham . |
| 63 | At Torness a demonstration wind generator and solar panels have been installed at the Visitor Centre to raise public awareness of renewable technology . |
| 64 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 65 | At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ . |
| 66 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 67 | Thus , as a case study in business history , the Stockton and Darlington Company provides important insights into the process of managerial decision-making in a period of economic history which has hitherto been under-researched at the level of the individual firm . |
| 68 | Transport between destination airport and your hotel or apartment ( except where car hire has been booked at the destination airport ) . |
| 69 | In fact , investigators found that migratory owls , falcons , hawks and ibises have been trapped at the sanctuary . |
| 70 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 71 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 72 | The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 . |
| 73 | Disagreements had been expected at the party convention after Koirala 's dismissal of six key ministers on Dec. 30 , 1991 . |
| 74 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 75 | Phyllis , this year , tell me , tell me , tell me how many crimes have been committed at the Park and Rides ? |
| 76 | Prof Alderslade added : ‘ Terrible crimes have been committed at the hospital . |
| 77 | South Birmingham Health Authority has admitted the treatment was ‘ unnecessary ’ and there was a ‘ slim chance ’ of other errors having been committed at the hospital . |
| 78 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 79 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 80 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 81 | ‘ The poison could have been added at the table just before Sir Thomas was poisoned , ’ ventured Heinrich hopefully . |
| 82 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 83 | The last atrocity had been claimed at the time by the Ulster Freedom Fighters with the explanation that it was in retaliation for a bomb which the Provisional IRA had exploded in an army bus in England seven days earlier , killing twelve men , women and children . |
| 84 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 85 | 75 per cent of subjects in this condition included a statement about the overall theme of the passage at the beginning of their recall protocols even though this information had actually been presented at the end of the passage and subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim . |
| 86 | The visitor will see that much work has indeed been done at the south eastern side of Levers Water . |
| 87 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 88 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 89 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 90 | ( 8 ) Has any work to the seller 's knowledge been done at the property requiring planning permission or Building Regulations consent ? |