Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been alarm at the growing congestion and pollution caused by the rapid growth in car use . |
| 2 | FATHER GREG BOYLE , SJ , has been pastor at the Mission Dolores Church in East Los Angeles for six years . |
| 3 | This year it could well be the turn of the talented nine year old whose main target has been glory at Aintree . |
| 4 | This is not considered as fire damage unless there has been combustion at the source of heat and either direct contact between the property and the source or direct radiation of heat from the source to the damaged property . |
| 5 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 6 | Sommerlad might well have added that , although such an idea might have been anathema at home , nothing prevented the colonial authorities from publishing newspapers in Tanganyika , Kenya , the Rhodesias , Sierra Leone and many of the French territories . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I prefer cold air to hot air , ’ he suggested urbanely , his eyes darkening with what could have been amusement at her spirited defence of her career . |
| 8 | In that same summer , however , occurred the incident involving the Hurufis , to be described shortly , in which Fahreddin Acemi is clearly shown to be acting as Mufti ; and he must therefore have been Mufti at the time of Molla Arab 's putative association with him . |
| 9 | There also seems to have been trouble at Ramsey . |
| 10 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 11 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 12 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 13 | The way you looked at him and how he was continually glancing at you told me it had been love at first sight . ’ |
| 14 | For her , it had been love at first sight . |
| 15 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 16 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 17 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 18 | Several Scottish players said that there had been talk at the dinner about the possibility of one of the Romanians hoping to stay in Scotland . |
| 19 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 20 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
| 21 | Down whose son had been bestman at his wedding . |
| 22 | Miss Mack had been housekeeper at The Hall for as many decades as most people could remember . |