Example sentences of "[verb] been at [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been at such pains . |
| 7 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 8 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 9 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 10 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 11 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 12 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 13 | Espey had been at United Distillers since 1986 , most recently as chairman of its North American operation , where he oversaw its acquisition of Glenmore Distilleries ( MW July 19 , 1991 ) and the division 's subsequent reorganisation . |
| 14 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 15 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 16 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 17 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 18 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 19 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |