Example sentences of "[verb] have been at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 2 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 3 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 4 | Self-evaluation from which review and audit can begin has been at the heart of a long-standing national project , Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 5 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 6 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 7 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 8 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 9 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 10 | His involvement with the practicalities of such development seems to have been at the level of experience as well as theory . |
| 11 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 12 | Mm That 's how I was , I was saying had been at the hospital , come back and says no , my |
| 13 | Spencer denied having been at the scene when the attack took place but the jury took just less than twenty minutes to convict him . |