Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 2 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
| 3 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 4 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 5 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 6 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 7 | If only Nubenehem remembered it , then at least he could establish for certain which girl had been at the City of Dreams . |
| 8 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 9 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 10 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 11 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 12 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 13 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 14 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 15 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 16 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 17 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 18 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 19 | Morale had been at its highest for years , up to the moment that the news had reached them that Merseyside was out . |
| 20 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 21 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 22 | So Ling had been at Silas too , she thought . |
| 23 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 24 | Their anticipation had been at fever pitch for days . |
| 25 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 26 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 27 | This , in itself , need not have posed much of a challenge to the conventional wisdom : if unemployment had been at unusually low levels at the time , the acceleration of inflation could have been explained in terms of the simple Phillips curve and contractionary demand management policies could have been implemented . |
| 28 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
| 29 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 30 | Her first job on leaving school had been at Whalbys ' . |