Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd been stuck at the site for four days with Vic Saunders and Dick Renshaw , mostly without food . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 12 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Having been present at the weekend of events held in the City Chambers , Edinburgh earlier this month to celebrate International Women 's Day , I was ‘ shocked and appalled ’ to see a letter from Alexandra Wallace ( 12 March ) on the content of the weekend . |
| 23 | I , too , wish to apologise to the House for not having been present at the start of this debate . |
| 24 | ‘ He improved his position by two places on the down hill run , having been 16th at the turn at the top of the hill . |
| 25 | I would like a copy , having been puzzled at the outset by TCPA 's representative asking questions on DCF . |
| 26 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 27 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 28 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 29 | The painters themselves , despite the highly organized aspect of the demonstration , appear to have been surprised at the sensation caused by their works and at the sudden notoriety which they acquired overnight . |
| 30 | It also seems to have been customary at the death of a scholar for those of his students who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to become . |