Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only from a record that would have been available at the police station or from officers knowledge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 9 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible . |
| 18 | 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 . |