Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is the first time that such a service has been available at a tennis event .
2 The PFA chairman no longer figures in Bassett 's first-team plans and has been available at a bargain £70,000 since the end of last season .
3 The increase has been slight at A level , but considerable at O level and CSE , as Figure 11.1 shows .
4 John Walraven from Faversham in Kent has been stuck at a border customs post for eight days .
5 But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years .
6 George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment .
7 Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness .
8 Neither jet-lag nor anything going wrong has been evident at the tourists ' training , which has been comfortably the most impressive seen in Cardiff since … well , since the last time the All Blacks were there in 1980 .
9 Dr Donal McKenna who runs the clinic has been amazed at the numbers of girls and older women coming to his door .
10 Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them .
11 He 'd been stuck at the site for four days with Vic Saunders and Dick Renshaw , mostly without food .
12 Robert Naish must have been disappointed at the members ' Extraordinary General Meeting on June 5th when his three-part motion failed to get the necessary 2:1 majority ( For 125 , Against 103 ) .
13 Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though .
14 She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household .
15 John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals .
16 To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap .
17 Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident .
18 Only from a record that would have been available at the police station or from officers knowledge .
19 Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play .
20 Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed .
21 ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’
22 And Sarah Morey would tell her that it did n't matter , though on any other day she would have been irritable at the delay .
23 Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre .
24 BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season .
25 Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated .
26 Whatever generalizations might have been true at the level of national policy , it was becoming evident towards the end of an era that had been marked by political consensus that in Greater London and some of the other metropolitan areas the public accountability and operational methods of the police were no longer consensual .
27 ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . )
28 Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled .
29 Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible .
30 I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were .
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