Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 2 | To justify his view that there are ways in which things might have been different while at the same time avoiding voluntarism , Poulantzas argues that there are two sources of valid counterfactuals . |
| 3 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |
| 4 | He said Fawcett had been smoking cannabis at the time of the offence . |
| 5 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 6 | Since the early days of management development in the NHS , in the 1960s , there have always been valuable initiatives at the centre and in localities . |
| 7 | In Slovakia the casualties ( at federal and republican level ) included the Civic Democratic Union ( formerly the Civic Democratic Union " Public against Violence " see p. 38831 ) , to which the outgoing Federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa belonged , and the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38831 ] , whose list was headed by Alexander Dubcek , the outgoing Federal Assembly chair who had been Prime Minister at the time of the 1968 " Prague Spring " . |
| 8 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 9 | The rest included such experienced practitioners as Dr A H Marshall , a former treasurer of the city of Coventry , and T Dan Smith , a former leader of the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne — as well as Dame Evelyn ( Baroness from 1966 ) Sharp who had been Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government when Crossman arrived in 1964 ( Wood 1976:40 — 1 ) . |
| 10 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 11 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |