Example sentences of "been [vb pp] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 32 | Roy Hattersley , deputy party leader , was blamed for the change in policy which has been approved at three previous conferences . |
| 33 | A meeting had been called at one of the local schools , another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot . |
| 34 | The basic rate for public sector expenditure has been assessed at 5 per cent per year in ‘ real ’ terms ( see HM Treasury , 1984 , p. 14 ) . |
| 35 | Assume that these have been assessed at 0.6 and 0.4 . |
| 36 | In the eastern part of the USA the significance of conservation measures has been demonstrated at two different scales ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 37 | Although , at less than ½ mm in length , it is smaller than the crab louse , it appears more willing to move , and a mite has been timed at one inch per minute . |
| 38 | Jarrett , who has a personal best of 13.04 , has been summer training in Portugal and already this season he has been timed at 13.33 … if the NIAAF can arrange to bring Jackson along to Belfast , it will be another clash to savour . |
| 39 | In the Tuamotus basalt has been reached at 438 and 415 m ( approx. 1 460 and approx. 1 380 ft ) . |
| 40 | All pay awards are , have been settled at one and a half per cent , and I do n't propose to go into any of the the detail . |
| 41 | The sums on the invoice are incorrect : this has been cleared with the Hilton and the sum owing has been settled at 592 in total . |
| 42 | For 1990–1 , the Total Standard Spending has been set at 4.9 billion , of which the Standard Spending on education is 2.2 billion ( 45% ) . |
| 43 | There are good reasons — nothing to do with prudishness — why the age of consent has been set at 16 , and the risk of cancer only adds to the dangers of Aids and unwanted pregnancies . |
| 44 | So y your limit has now been set at five ? |
| 45 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 46 | The quota for this year has been set at 120,000 tonnes ( compared with 235,000 in 1989 ) , with a proviso that only 25,000 tonnes can be caught before July , at which point the report of a new study may trigger further cuts . |
| 47 | The risk-free rate of return has been set at 9 per cent and two security returns ( 14 and 21 per cent ) have been indicated on the line representing the relationship between expected return and sensitivity . |
| 48 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 49 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 50 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 51 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 52 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 53 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 54 | The medical journals still present a variety of possible remedies , many of which sound most desperate and bizarre missionaries report from China that they have been cured by having needles stuck into their bellies and arms , yet this is not thought too strange to mention … and almost every variety of chemical substance has been proposed at one time or another , all of which is a sure sign that our profession remains baffled by this disease . " |
| 55 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 56 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 57 | The figures have been converted at 0.543 to the Dutch guilder . |
| 58 | Since Operation Blade 's month-long knife amnesty began 11 days ago , more than 1,500 sharp weapons have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 59 | At the start of the third week of a month-long knife amnesty more than 2,000 blades have been surrendered at 70 stations throughout the region . |
| 60 | Ozone has been monitored at 17 places since 1985 . |