Example sentences of "have been at [adj] [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 | Generally , it seems the response of social services has been at individual crisis level , rather than reaching out to travellers . |
| 4 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 5 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 6 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 7 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 8 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 12 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 24 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 25 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 26 | I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |