Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 2 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 3 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 4 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 5 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 6 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 7 | A leaflet headed The Case for Charging Full Cost Fees , with the sub-heading Why this is felt to be necessary , has been dished out at the party political conferences . |
| 8 | Jones , once a Royal Yacht engineer and a lifeboat mechanic on Anglesey , has been tied up at the Arden Arms for two years . |
| 9 | that he or she has been signed in at the inn ; |
| 10 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 11 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 12 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 13 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 14 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 15 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 16 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 17 | FOOTBALL hero Paul Gascoigne 's dirty underwear has been snapped up at auction . |
| 18 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 19 | Ronny has great speed ( 4.79 over 40 meters ( with flying start — has to be ) and is the fastest player on the national team along with the captain Werder Bremen star Rune Bratseth who also has been clocked in at 4.79 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A new business development unit has been set up at the station , which will work closely with IRS in foraging for potential leads . |
| 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 | A special meeting has been set up at 10am between traders , the NIO and the Compensation Agency . |
| 25 | Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base . |
| 26 | The sensory room has been set up at the Ormerod school in Oxford alongside the normal toy room . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 . |
| 29 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 30 | What I want to ask is , firstly , who are you funded by , and these teams , I note erm paragraphs three erm these nurses and so on , are they existing staff , or is this a new team , erm management team which has been set up at yet more expense to the health authority ? |