Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 2 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 3 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 4 | I 've been at the top in television for a decade , you see , Blanche . |
| 5 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 6 | ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club . |
| 7 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 8 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
| 9 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
| 10 | They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all ! |
| 11 | School children from all over the country have been at the home of British motor racing putting their own hand-built machines through their paces . |
| 12 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 13 | Alexander was convinced that every experience is transmitted into muscular tension ; as you release the tension you may uncover psychological tensions that have been at the bottom of some physical illnesses . |
| 14 | Lower corporate profits , the crisis caused by reckless bank lending and corporate dabbling in financial derivatives , tumbling property prices and scandals involving business , investment houses , the yakuza crime syndicates and politicians have been at the core of Japan 's financial woes . |
| 15 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
| 16 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |
| 17 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 18 | Major shortcomings in company organisation and management have been at the centre of Britain 's unsatisfactory economic performance . |
| 19 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 20 | Ghana is fortunate in having large accessible bauxite and hydroelectric potential , both of which have been at the centre of the country 's development planning . |
| 21 | It seems to open up all the disturbing conflicts and inconsistencies which have been at the heart of their problems . |
| 22 | We have been at the heart of the action . |
| 23 | Figures for the balance of payments which have been at the heart of much policy discussion since the war , are an outstanding example of most of these difficulties [ Dow , 1964 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 24 | This balance is particularly important for several of the industries that have been at the heart of the Japanese economic miracle like motor vehicles , electrical consumer goods , watches or cameras . |
| 25 | Italy 's cities have been at the heart of world history , art and culture , and everywhere tributes remain to great masters like Leonardo Da Vinci . |
| 26 | The Psalms offer a rich mixture of spiritual , literary and musical expression and they have been at the heart of the Church 's daily worship since biblical times . |
| 27 | I agree with the Secretary of State that the matters involved are highly technical and that the Hydrotechnica report deals with matters that have been at the heart of the controversy . |
| 28 | These officer cadets have been at the Academy since early May and are now well into their fourteen-week first term . |
| 29 | ‘ All your life you have been at the edge . |
| 30 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |