Example sentences of "[been] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns out that both ladies have been at the Rossellini anti-wrinkle juice — with increasingly disastrous consequences . |
| 2 | ‘ How long had you been at the Jenner Clinic ? ’ |
| 3 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |
| 4 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 5 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 6 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 7 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 8 | Eva had been at the International College for Officers for five years . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 10 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 11 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 12 | But he gets the best : the person who provides the real thing ( a contribution to profitability ) , the person who 's been at the sharp end and actually cut a profit from the edge . |
| 13 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 14 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 15 | Bluebird , which was rented by a group of nurses from the Waterloo Hospital , had been at the ready , and when the birth was imminent they 'd seen to it that the ambulance arrived promptly . |
| 16 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 17 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 18 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 19 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 20 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 21 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 22 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 25 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 26 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 27 | The conservatives who have been the most vocal advocates of alliance with the US and opponents of communist totalitarianism , have been at the same time among the most strident supporters of Japanese rearmament and the revival of ‘ traditional values ’ . |
| 28 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 29 | Had he really been at the same school as Edward ? |
| 30 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |