Example sentences of "that it have been [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 2 | It was depressing to discover that the warmth of Alexei 's concern was a sham , and that it had been aimed at making him susceptible to ideas which would lead to the industrialisation of Tarvaras . |
| 3 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 4 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 5 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 6 | The chronology of place-name developments was rejected by place-name scholars after seminal research by John McNeal Dodgson in 1966 and , to the extent that it has been replaced at all , place names are now seen to represent the hierarchical status of places in the landscape with no particular significance attached to when they are first recorded . |
| 7 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 8 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 9 | I arrive at the venue to find that it has been changed at a whim to another hotel across the road ( ’ It 's much cooler and we 've got a cosy corner in the lounge , ’ the PR man assures me ) . |