Example sentences of "been [adj] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 2 | Greeks have never been good at the plodding job , even in their classical prime ; Demosthenes was not the only one to complain of that . |
| 3 | The ARFU has been concerned at the falling standard of sevens , particularly with the World Cup Sevens to be played in April next year at Murrayfield . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the two promised divisions , which , had they been available at the right moment , would almost certainly have presented Verdun to the Germans , were still firmly held at Metz , two day 's march away . |
| 5 | For example , analyses of expenditure to client group have been available at the national level since the mid-1970s . |
| 6 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 7 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 8 | Flaubert would hardly have been surprised at the lazy rush to understand . |
| 9 | From the outset , commentators seem to have been astonished at the great interest the competition evoked . |