Example sentences of "[verb] [be] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 4 | The strongest activity has been at the bottom end of the market , where there is considerable pent-up demand from first-time buyers who have delayed buying over the past few years , for fear that house prices would fall further . |
| 5 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 6 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 9 | The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from April 18 to April 21 . |
| 10 | The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over the Easter Weekend , April 18 to April 21 . |
| 11 | The largest gathering previously seen was at the 1972 Neo-classical exhibition held at the V&A in London , organised by Mario Praz and Hugh Honour , which had managed to assemble fourteen sculptures . |
| 12 | Another display entitled ‘ La Corrida ’ featuring 120 paintings and drawings by Botero on the theme of bullfighting is at the Grand Palais from 20 to 29 November . |
| 13 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 14 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 18 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 19 | Having been at the Methodist conference last week , or fattist . |
| 20 | Guideline 1 : The best time to start is at the very beginning |
| 21 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 22 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 23 | The requirements that member states co-operate are at the same time strengthened . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Eva had been at the International College for Officers for five years . |
| 27 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 28 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 29 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 30 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |