Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 2 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 3 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 4 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 5 | Her tears had been angry tears at first , but now they were sad and bitter . |
| 6 | He said Fawcett had been smoking cannabis at the time of the offence . |
| 7 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 8 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 9 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ The Maktowms have been big spenders at Newmarket , but they have never been made really welcome there , ’ an insider told me . |