Example sentences of "had be at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 2 | He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this . |
| 3 | A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself . |
| 4 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 5 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 6 | Coun Russell said there had been at least two deaths in bedsit fires in Chester in recent years . |
| 7 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 8 | Evans or Owens , the furniture man , who had come twice to the house , had been at least sixty then . |
| 9 | He said that every weekend until recently there had been at least three incursions , most of which he had intercepted . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " . |