Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |
3 | He said Fawcett had been smoking cannabis at the time of the offence . |
4 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
5 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
6 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
7 | Yet there have been any surprise at the decision , dismissed brusquely by DEC chief executive Robert Palmer with a curt ‘ Nothing personal . |
8 | The rest included such experienced practitioners as Dr A H Marshall , a former treasurer of the city of Coventry , and T Dan Smith , a former leader of the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne — as well as Dame Evelyn ( Baroness from 1966 ) Sharp who had been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government when Crossman arrived in 1964 ( Wood 1976:40 — 1 ) . |
9 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |