Example sentences of "not been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 2 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 3 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 4 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 7 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 8 | Someone with Walker 's pace and knowhow would be a prize addition to a defence which has not been at its ruthless best during the Gunners ' recent barren run . |
| 9 | This has not been at all easy . |
| 10 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 11 | Even if you decide you have not been at risk in the past , you seriously need to consider safer sex to protect yourself and your partners in the future from HIV . |
| 12 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |
| 13 | Even if Plácido Domingo had not moved Juan Pons , playing the mean and moody Sheriff of Puccini 's La Fanciulla del West , to barely-suppressed tears in the famous Act 3 aria , ‘ Ch'ella mi creda ’ — if , in other words , Domingo had not been at his committed best , which is quite something — the Scala audience would no doubt have roared its approval all the same . |
| 14 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 15 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 16 | Some of the statements of Mrs Thatcher and some of her ministers have not been at all helpful . |
| 17 | No I 've not been at my work this |
| 18 | You 've not been at your work . |
| 19 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 20 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 21 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 22 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 23 | Minter had not been at Breakspear , exactly or even approximately contemporary with Clare Mallender . |
| 24 | I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door . |
| 25 | However , constitutional theory has not been at the heart of modern social science research . |
| 26 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 27 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 28 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 29 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 30 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |