Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 2 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 3 | She 'd been so relieved at the news of Liz and Owen 's removal from Intensive Care that seeing the other girl 's still , slight figure lying motionless on the hospital bed had been a deep and severe shock . |
| 4 | It is also worth speculating on the fate of what must have been a nonplussed Christopher Chryselius , Sir John Pennington must have been thoroughly annoyed at the outcome , too . |
| 5 | And that leads the main question of this issue : would the girls have been as evil at the end ? |
| 6 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 7 | Stevie Ray must have been really young at the time … |
| 8 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 9 | He would have been quite appalled at the class of some of these ‘ friends ’ with city suits unbuttoned and slack ties askew . |
| 10 | Howard would have approved of the improvement in pay and conditions of service and greater emphasis on training but he might have been quite surprised at the eventual outcome of well-meaning initiatives . |
| 11 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 12 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 13 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 14 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 15 | Although the Emperor had been slightly cool at the first meeting — boutonné was how the Queen described it — Eugénie was full of charm , ‘ so amiable , so clever and agreeable ’ that the atmosphere soon warmed and there was , apparently , a frank exchange of views between Napoleon III and Victoria about the various strains in the Anglo-French Entente . |
| 16 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |
| 17 | King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War , which he would have liked to avoid , but Britain 's commitment to Belgium made that impossible , and in 1917 he decided to change the royal ‘ House ’ name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor . |
| 18 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 19 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 20 | That was why he had been so hostile at the beginning , why he 'd known all about the family . |
| 21 | The children had been especially disappointed at the thought of losing their holiday : |
| 22 | She had a job , a house and enough money to live fairly well ; in fact she had been quite surprised at the amount of money her mother had left her . |
| 23 | There are few people I think who 've been rather surprised at the amount concerned . |
| 24 | All right , I daresay you do n't — but there 's no need to snap , I have been pretty well at the end of my tether . |
| 25 | In fact , I have been pleasantly surprised at the speed of WSWIN 1.5 . |
| 26 | Although they have been quieter than their conservative counterparts , liberal Democrats , and especially the members of the black caucus , have been deeply unhappy at the way policy has developed during the spring . |
| 27 | Some theories have enjoyed more academic success than success in terms of policy adoption , while others have been very influential at the policy level but not within the circles of academic economists . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been genuinely surprised at the positive reaction , ’ smiles Trevor , a perfectionist in all he does . |
| 29 | And er , we get a panel of young engineers and a panel of school teachers and they actually erm go to a school , they sit down , look at the national curriculum and decide which parts they can actually participate in and it 's been so successful at the moment , realise the trouble is we 're somewhere about five thousand , six hundred secondary schools in the U K you realise it 's a mammoth task ! |