Example sentences of "had [be] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 2 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 3 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 4 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 5 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 6 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 7 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 8 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 9 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 10 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |
| 11 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 12 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 13 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 14 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 15 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 16 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 17 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 18 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 19 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 20 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 21 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 22 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 23 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 24 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 25 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 26 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 27 | It consisted of the advisory teacher , an educational psychologist and sixteen of the teachers who had been at the course . |
| 28 | The story about how he asked the head of current affairs , Liz Forgan , who had been at the Guardian , was equally idiosyncratic . |
| 29 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 30 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |