Example sentences of "[been] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 2 | She had been rapt at his every phrase , pen ready to score out any word or even a comma in her essays to please him . |
| 3 | But Wednesday are also under orders to smarten up their act and Worthington admitted : ‘ Although we are playing well enough , we 've been sloppy at times and have not stuck our chances away . ’ |
| 4 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 5 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 6 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 7 | It has been suggested above that , in view of the clear statement in the and the unsatisfactory nature of Mustakimzade 's argument , Turkish tradition has been guilty at least of inconsistency , if not of error , in doing so . |
| 8 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 9 | The campaign aimed at the general population had been right at a time when there was ignorance about AIDS , she said . |
| 10 | Rumours of a split between him and the company had been rife at its plants yesterday . |
| 11 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 12 | It was better that way , she supposed , though if things had been normal at home Rob could have phoned her there . |
| 13 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 14 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 15 | Foinavon 's win may have been due at least in part to the somewhat unorthodox individual training of his young handler , John Kempton . |
| 16 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 17 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 18 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 19 | The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home . |
| 20 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 21 | Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged . |
| 22 | On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " . |
| 23 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 24 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 25 | I 've always been hopeless at riddles . |
| 26 | and it 's not been funny at all , he 's laughing about it but I 've had to cope with it |
| 27 | it 's not been funny at all |
| 28 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 29 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 30 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |