Example sentences of "[vb infin] been at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 2 | When the French fleet , united with the Spanish , did threaten Cornwall it could not have been at a more perilous time . |
| 3 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 4 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 5 | He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss . |
| 6 | You must have been at a party . ’ |
| 7 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
| 8 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 9 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 10 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 11 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . |
| 14 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 15 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Without this precaution ‘ half the battalions , ’ he believed , ‘ would have been at the hospital already ’ . |
| 18 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 19 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 20 | ‘ You should have been at the Washington gig at the 9.30 Club . |
| 21 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 22 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
| 23 | Pascoe would have been at the restaurant , waiting . |
| 24 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 25 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 26 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have been at the whisky bottle . ’ |
| 28 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 30 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |