Example sentences of "[to-vb] been at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While life expectancy has extended , it appears to have been at the price of a longer period and a greater proportion of life being spent in chronic sickness . |
| 2 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 3 | SULTRY : Carla is said to have been at the chateau |
| 4 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 5 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 7 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 8 | His involvement with the practicalities of such development seems to have been at the level of experience as well as theory . |
| 9 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 10 | 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 . |