Example sentences of "[been] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 2 | The campaign aimed at the general population had been right at a time when there was ignorance about AIDS , she said . |
| 3 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 4 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 5 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 6 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 9 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 10 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 11 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 12 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 15 | US firms have been incensed at the number and size of claims filed against thrifts ' professional advisers by RTC , and have accused the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ in an attempt to recover some of the billions of dollars US taxpayers lost when the S&L industry collapsed . |
| 16 | He must have been uncomfortable at the least but he never once even laid his ears back . |
| 17 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | US officials had been alarmed at the size of Moda'i 's estimate and had unofficially rejected it . |
| 20 | I have ample evidence that persons who are very aware of matters of public interest in general have been unaware at a critical stage of the washed-over status at that time of Skelton . |
| 21 | It also seems to have been customary at the death of a scholar for those of his students who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to become . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 24 | David McCann ( Phoenix CC ) , who had been 6th at the turn in 10.10 , came back quicker to take the bronze in 22.39 . |
| 25 | How much the shenanigans in the boardroom have affected the team 's performance on the field is hard to say but those performances , even allowing for another sad catalogue of injuries , have been inconsistent at the least . |
| 26 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 27 | Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible . |
| 28 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 29 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 30 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |