Example sentences of "[been] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what has been at issue since the Single European Act — I was not here before that — and today with the treaty of union . |
| 2 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 3 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 4 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 5 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 6 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 7 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 8 | Plainly national security can not have been at stake since that had already been damaged . |
| 9 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |
| 10 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 11 | Since political values have often been at stake in conflicts over social policy , the very character of the ideological issue has precluded a cool appraisal of all the policy options . |
| 12 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 13 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 14 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 15 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 16 | It was an unforgettable night for the challenger and those fortunate enough to have been at ringside . |
| 17 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
| 18 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 19 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 20 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 21 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 22 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 23 | Vacuum thoroughly about twice a week and lightly as necessary when the children have been at play . |
| 24 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 25 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 27 | I 've been at bottom . |
| 28 | Well , just generally , we have n't restricted recruiting of care staff , in other words , unless we know there 's a decision been made about a residential establishment which there has n't been at present . |
| 29 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 30 | He has been at court , he is an educated man . |