Example sentences of "it [verb] been at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable .
2 And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step
3 It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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