Example sentences of "[been] [adj] at the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Had Anicia Juliana been alive at the time ( she died about 528 ) , she would not have been amused . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | US officials had been alarmed at the size of Moda'i 's estimate and had unofficially rejected it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well , the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything 's possible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 23 | Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre . |
| 24 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been present at the incident involving Seb and Nahum the previous evening . |
| 28 | Luckily the second tags on the babies ' arms were correct and van driver Derek , who had been present at the birth , was positive Daniel was his baby . |
| 29 | And predictably , McDonald and wife Juliet , who had also been present at the birth of the label , found themselves in financial trouble . |
| 30 | Having been present at the weekend of events held in the City Chambers , Edinburgh earlier this month to celebrate International Women 's Day , I was ‘ shocked and appalled ’ to see a letter from Alexandra Wallace ( 12 March ) on the content of the weekend . |