Example sentences of "[noun] been at " in BNC.

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1 Had the issue been at par ( i.e. had the real return on outstanding amounts of this stock been exactly 2 ½%),; it would have been issued at a price determined by the RPI eight months earlier in January 1991 .
2 Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay .
3 This mark-up would have been greater — almost 500 per cent — had the funeral in question been at the top of the market .
4 Not since Alexandra Palace in North London has the Great British Beer Festival been at a site with so much style and heritage .
5 Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other .
6 Has the Bank Manager been at you again ? ’
7 Never before has the nation 's mood and morale been at such a low ebb , never before such a vote of no confidence in the country , writes Rob Brown
8 ‘ And has Mystery Miguelito been at Pepe 's for long ? ’
9 Yeah Becky the wrecker been at it again
10 I have in my own way tried to point out that , of the world 's leading rugby nations , the game in south Africa has suffered badly not only as a result of its years of isolation — as many of those who have just visited the country during the New Zealand and Australian tours believe — but precisely because our officials have for a very long time been at the forefront of the trend towards professionalism .
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