Example sentences of "been [adj] at times " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wednesday are also under orders to smarten up their act and Worthington admitted : ‘ Although we are playing well enough , we 've been sloppy at times and have not stuck our chances away . ’ |
| 2 | Dungannon may have been disjointed at times , and this is n't a performance they will remember , but even an off colour display was more than good enough to keep their Cup hopes alive . |
| 3 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |
| 4 | Her cheeks were suffused with colour and Felix 's voice was very gentle as he said , ‘ Surely you must have been lonely at times ? |
| 5 | The health of my husband , my son and myself has suffered ( my husband was on sick leave for two months ) , and the tension in our home has been extreme at times . |
| 6 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 7 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |