Example sentences of "[adv] [been] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door . |
| 2 | However , constitutional theory has not been at the heart of modern social science research . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Pay has not been at the top of the teachers ’ agenda but this derisory increase will push it high up their list of grievances . ’ |
| 4 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 5 | He was convinced the man had not been at the army camp demonstration on the day MacQuillan died . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ By 9.30 I would have expected him to have already been at the dinner party , ’ Mr Reenan said . |
| 8 | Things might have been a little different if Tony Crosland had still been at the Department of Education and Science , but I doubt it . |
| 9 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
| 10 | Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities . |
| 11 | Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking . |
| 12 | Although isotope studies have always been at the heart of the deep-mantle recycling hypothesis , previous analyses have focused on radiogenic isotope variations ( those that result from radioactive decay , such as the isotopic composition of Sr and Nd ) ; Woodhead et al . |
| 13 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 14 | But , if women 's bodies have always been at the forefront of discussions about painting and sculpture , it was women 's bodies seen and portrayed by men that were dominant . |
| 15 | This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent . |
| 16 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 17 | Where economies in Whitehall have been made , they have usually been at the expense of services or functions . |
| 18 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 19 | The building — called the Old Manor House — was allegedly the scene of a naked ‘ wedding ceremony ’ and Miss Dale has also been at the centre of a storm surrounding payments of £4,000 made by the Treasury to help fund Chancellor Norman Lamont 's legal expenses to get her out of his London house . |
| 20 | ‘ Yet women have really been at the forefront of the Green movement . ’ |
| 21 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 22 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 23 | This has often been at the expense of existing capacity in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 25 | He had not even been at the party . |
| 26 | if it had n't been at the club one night . |
| 27 | Chris in fact had n't been at the wedding , since Courtney had refused to let his wife Shelli attend . |
| 28 | The fish have to be caught by longlining to preserve their quality for drying , and landings have not yet been at the level that was hoped for . |
| 29 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |
| 30 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |