Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [been] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 2 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 4 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 5 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 6 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 7 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 8 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 9 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 10 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |