Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 2 | Sixteen had been at Oxford or Cambridge , as had the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 4 | In 1951 the World Peace Pagoda was built , and in 1954 the Sixth Great InternatIonal Council of Buddhist monks and learned laity was opened ( the fifth had been at Mandalay in 1871 under the patronage of King Mindon ) . |
| 5 | All told , of the forty-six male English lord lieutenants in 1990 , no less than thirty had been at Eton . |