Example sentences of "[verb] be at [det] [noun] " 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 The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
3 He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential .
4 Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school .
5 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
6 I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism .
7 The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her !
8 And they would have been at that muckle supper .
9 They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either .
10 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 .
11 It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now .
15 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 .
16 The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him .
20 I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment .
21 It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible .
22 Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 :
23 Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour .
24 At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing .
25 On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation .
26 He had been at such pains .
27 The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar .
28 Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave .
29 Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards .
30 It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century .
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