Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have been at " in BNC.
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1 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
2 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
3 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
4 | Detailed seismic evidence indicates that the underthrusting has been at an angle of about 15° over a distance of about 300 km ; perhaps significantly this roughly corresponds to the average width of the Himalayas . |
5 | It is not the first time the council has been at the centre of a disagreement over charges for collection of waste . |
6 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
7 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
8 | ‘ The boy 's been at school ! ’ he laughed . |
9 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
10 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
11 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
12 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
13 | The Government have been at the forefront in calling on our European partners to take action to reduce chlorofluorocarbons by 1995 . |
14 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
15 | We 're light years behind some of those areas where the spending has been at a much higher level . |
16 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
17 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
18 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
19 | No wonder that the government and the Congress have been at loggerheads . |
20 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
21 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | So — the grapevine had been at work , had it ? |
24 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
25 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
26 | The dispute over the bird has been at the centre of a long-running debate over the fate of the US 's last remaining ancient forests , which has included acrimonious exchanges between environmentalists and the timber industry . |
27 | The fact the player has been at Tamba Bay Rowdies , and has an agent , clouded my judgement . ’ |
28 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |