Example sentences of "been [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have been miracles at Aintree before , and Ghofar , fit and fresh , may just have a better each-way chance than his odds of 33–1 suggest . |
| 32 | It had already been love at first hearing . |
| 33 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 34 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 35 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 36 | The way you looked at him and how he was continually glancing at you told me it had been love at first sight . ’ |
| 37 | For her , it had been love at first sight . |
| 38 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 39 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 40 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 41 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 42 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 43 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Another reader brought in the 1960 European Cup semi-final programme between Dundee and Milan to underline one of the connections Dundee manager Bob Shankly had previously been gaffer at Stirling . |
| 46 | The pair had once been students at the University College of Galway . |
| 47 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Manuel Arburúa , appointed as Minister for Commerce , had , until then , been Under-Secretary at the combined Ministry for Commerce and Industry and was , by profession , an economist specializing in financial and monetary policy . |
| 50 | There has been alarm at the growing congestion and pollution caused by the rapid growth in car use . |