Example sentences of "[been] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 2 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 3 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 4 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 5 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 6 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 7 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 8 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 9 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 10 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 11 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 12 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 13 | US firms have been incensed at the number and size of claims filed against thrifts ' professional advisers by RTC , and have accused the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ in an attempt to recover some of the billions of dollars US taxpayers lost when the S&L industry collapsed . |
| 14 | US officials had been alarmed at the size of Moda'i 's estimate and had unofficially rejected it . |
| 15 | It also seems to have been customary at the death of a scholar for those of his students who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to become . |
| 16 | BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season . |
| 17 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 18 | David McCann ( Phoenix CC ) , who had been 6th at the turn in 10.10 , came back quicker to take the bronze in 22.39 . |
| 19 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 20 | Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible . |
| 21 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 22 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 23 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |
| 24 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 25 | Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre . |
| 26 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 27 | The undertaking was the dream of Yoshikuni Kamichika , its president , who , on a visit to Holland had been impressed at the way the Dutch had managed to retain an ecological balance despite their economic growth . |
| 28 | And Sarah Morey would tell her that it did n't matter , though on any other day she would have been irritable at the delay . |
| 29 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 30 | She had been present at the incident involving Seb and Nahum the previous evening . |