Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 2 | A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK . |
| 3 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 4 | John Landry of Lotus Development Corp , Philippe Kahn of Borland International Inc and John Sculley of Apple Computer Inc have also been booked to speak at the event . |
| 5 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 6 | The study has been designed to look at : the feasibility of extending CSAWS activities to the collection of other recyclable waste materials , such as glass , plastics , oil and metals ; potential sites for storage of such materials — sites being evaluated in terms of ease of access , cost , suitability for storage , planning permission , and the availability of funds to offset costs ; the number of jobs arising from the resultant expansion of activities ; the spin-off effect of recycling waste materials in terms of openings for small business ; and the likely savings on current disposal costs in industry . |
| 7 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 8 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 9 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 10 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 11 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 12 | And the fact that are four per cent cheaper than us and as soon as I mention and increase he says , well if it 's dual source we 've been told to look at the cheapest source of supply as single source . |
| 13 | Gas chromatography of MUP suggests that the principal component bound by MUP in vivo is 2- ( sec- butyl ) thiazoline ( Fig. 3 ) , although this may represent the major species of several present in the crystal , MUP has been shown to bind at least three different ligands in vivo and some or all of these may also be present at low occupancy . |
| 14 | Executives from Ford , which has acknowledged subscribing to the league , have been called to appear at an industrial tribunal next month . |
| 15 | It was in that personal role that he had been summoned to dine at short notice . |
| 16 | Far off , at St Ignatius Loyola College in County Galway , a similar commemoration had been timed to start at the same moment and also to end at ten minutes past nine . |
| 17 | Far too many handicapped young people have been condemned to operate at a lower level of education and achievement than their abilities warrant because of lack of facilities for further and higher education . |
| 18 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 19 | We were delighted to have been invited to exhibit at the Grosvenor House Fair , which attracts a more diverse audience . |
| 20 | Mr Gollnisch has been invited to speak at a Conservative fringe meeting in Blackpool , organised by Western Goals UK , a movement run by the former Tory MP , Sir Patrick Wall . |
| 21 | Many of Charles 's ideas sprang from a memorable visit to Boston in September 1986 , when he had been invited to speak at the Harvard 350th Commemoration Ceremony . |
| 22 | She has been invited to speak at conferences and study days all over the country . |
| 23 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 24 | We first encounter Anderson , a professor of ethics , on board a plane for Prague , where he has been invited to speak at a philosophy conference . |
| 25 | Welsh Water managers have been invited to speak at the annual meeting of Wirral Deewatch at the Friends Meeting House , Telegraph Road , Heswall , next Wednesday night , the day before the petition is presented . |
| 26 | There was no state banquet to mark Artai 's enthronement , and so it was without surprise that Alexei observed that everyone who was of importance in the Khanate had been invited to dine at Burun 's house . |
| 27 | This year the London Handel Orchestra have been invited to play at the festival in Hesse — Handel 's birthplace . |
| 28 | We discovered that he had been invited to stay at Wuthering Heights , by Hindley . |
| 29 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 30 | Perhaps it may even spur them to have a rethink ( miracles have been known to happen at this time of year ) and remove the threat of closure not just from St Bart 's but many other wonderful facilities up and down the country . |