Example sentences of "had [be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 2 | This was a task for which Wilson Jr , who had been at best an indifferent driver himself , was palpably unfitted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 5 | Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen . |
| 6 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 7 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 8 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 9 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 10 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 11 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 12 | He had been at such pains . |
| 13 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 14 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 15 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 16 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 17 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 18 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 19 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 20 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 21 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 22 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 23 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 24 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 25 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 27 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 28 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 29 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 30 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |