Example sentences of "[vb infin] been at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 3 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 4 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |