Example sentences of "[been] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 3 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 4 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 5 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 6 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 7 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 8 | Mr Parkinson told journalists later : ‘ It has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 9 | White has been at the arboretum for 14 years and observes that the best autumn colour often comes after the worst summers . |
| 10 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 11 | Ever since Conran converted a struggling furniture-manufacturing business into a unique chain of retail shops called Habitat and set in motion a high-street revolution , good design has been at the core of everything he has done . |
| 12 | On the other hand , Finniston feels that the younger generation is having a favourable impact on the need to rid Britain of the ‘ them and us ’ syndrome that has plagued industry for so long and been at the root of so many of its ills . |
| 13 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 14 | Conviviality has been at the heart of sport . |
| 15 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 16 | These officer cadets have been at the Academy since early May and are now well into their fourteen-week first term . |
| 17 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 18 | Mr MacRae has been at the hotel for five years . |
| 19 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 20 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 21 | Recent exhibitions have been at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and abroad in Toronto , Paris , Pittsburg , Maastricht , Antwerp , Madrid and Los Angeles . |
| 22 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 23 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 24 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 25 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 26 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 27 | Rifkin has been at the forefront of the struggle to make biotechnology accountable to the public since 1977 , when he invaded the stage at a conference of the National Academy of Sciences , brandishing a banner reading ‘ Do n't tread on my genes . ’ |
| 28 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 29 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 30 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |