Example sentences of "[verb] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 2 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 3 | Nor can there be any claim that the laws-of-war approach has been at all decisive anywhere in illuminating the issue of the legality or otherwise of possession of such weapons . |
| 4 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 5 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 6 | To refer once again to the unpredicted and possibly counter-productive side effects of the legal reform movement , the effect on the ‘ rules ’ question has been at most unfortunate in the eyes of many basic grade staff . |
| 7 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 8 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 9 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 10 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 11 | No , she did n't really remember being at all deprived . |
| 12 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 13 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 14 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 15 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 16 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 17 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 18 | She would n't have been at all surprised if she were . |
| 19 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 20 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 21 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 22 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 23 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |
| 24 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 25 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 26 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 27 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 28 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 29 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 30 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |