Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Maskell has been good at stealing goals this season , but even he could n't force a way through . |
| 2 | It has been suggested above that , in view of the clear statement in the and the unsatisfactory nature of Mustakimzade 's argument , Turkish tradition has been guilty at least of inconsistency , if not of error , in doing so . |
| 3 | The PFA chairman no longer figures in Bassett 's first-team plans and has been available at a bargain £70,000 since the end of last season . |
| 4 | This is the first time that such a service has been available at a tennis event . |
| 5 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 6 | The increase has been slight at A level , but considerable at O level and CSE , as Figure 11.1 shows . |
| 7 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 8 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 9 | This focusing on JC has been noted by many writers , and is the basis for the term " London Jamaican " which has been current at least since Rosen and Burgess ( 1980 ) . |
| 10 | At all times , the BBC and official propaganda has been industrious at smearing them with crime and violence . |
| 11 | However , there are planning experts who say Hampshire has been adept at arguing down what its proper share should be . |
| 12 | The company has been adept at moving into high-margin businesses such as laboratory services , optical fibres and speciality materials . |
| 13 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 14 | John Walraven from Faversham in Kent has been stuck at a border customs post for eight days . |
| 15 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 16 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 17 | It is not the first time Robins has been angry at deals negotiated by his predecessor . |
| 18 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON striker David Cork has been transfer-listed at his own request . |
| 20 | This has been true at any time between four and 25 years after marriage . |
| 21 | Britain has been concerned at Libyan attempts to put pressure on foreign governments by refusing exit visas . |
| 22 | The ARFU has been concerned at the falling standard of sevens , particularly with the World Cup Sevens to be played in April next year at Murrayfield . |
| 23 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 24 | Finally , George Segal has been busy at work making three groups : ‘ Appalachian Couple ’ , ‘ Bread Lines ’ and |
| 25 | Suppose that for the last several periods of time , real national income has been constant at £l , 000 . |
| 26 | The health of my husband , my son and myself has suffered ( my husband was on sick leave for two months ) , and the tension in our home has been extreme at times . |
| 27 | Neither jet-lag nor anything going wrong has been evident at the tourists ' training , which has been comfortably the most impressive seen in Cardiff since … well , since the last time the All Blacks were there in 1980 . |
| 28 | Dr Donal McKenna who runs the clinic has been amazed at the numbers of girls and older women coming to his door . |
| 29 | Plymouth-based Guildsoft has been hard at work readying several new products recently . |
| 30 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |