Example sentences of "have been at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 2 | These officer cadets have been at the Academy since early May and are now well into their fourteen-week first term . |
| 3 | Recent exhibitions have been at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and abroad in Toronto , Paris , Pittsburg , Maastricht , Antwerp , Madrid and Los Angeles . |
| 4 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 5 | Lower corporate profits , the crisis caused by reckless bank lending and corporate dabbling in financial derivatives , tumbling property prices and scandals involving business , investment houses , the yakuza crime syndicates and politicians have been at the core of Japan 's financial woes . |
| 6 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 7 | Conservatives councils in shires , districts and cities have been at the forefront of these reforms . |
| 8 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
| 9 | By modifying children 's more difficult behaviour , they become more rewarding to their parents , and mothers and fathers who have been at the stage of rejecting and even abusing their difficult children find they can enjoy the experience of being a parent . |
| 10 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |
| 11 | Alexander was convinced that every experience is transmitted into muscular tension ; as you release the tension you may uncover psychological tensions that have been at the bottom of some physical illnesses . |
| 12 | ‘ I could not have done , I have been at the high-road seeing to my traps ; but I saw that the rooks were disturbed . ’ |
| 13 | Most of the horses I have bought in the past have been five or six years old , and have been at the stage of jumping around Discovery and Newcomer classes . |
| 14 | It turns out that both ladies have been at the Rossellini anti-wrinkle juice — with increasingly disastrous consequences . |
| 15 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 16 | It seems to open up all the disturbing conflicts and inconsistencies which have been at the heart of their problems . |
| 17 | We have been at the heart of the action . |
| 18 | Bruce Harris and the 200 strong team from Casa Alianza have been at the forefront in the fight to protect the street children of Guatemala . |
| 19 | And Smart E 's manager Danny Donnelly says : ‘ There 's always been a strong dance scene here and that 's probably why local bands have been at the forefront of the rave scene . |
| 20 | In many countries teachers and academics have been at the forefront of the fight for justice , democracy , trade union and human rights — the Pro-Democracy movements in China , South Korea and Myanmar have all been led by students and academics — and they have suffered for their non-violent dissent . |
| 21 | The same year , the society received thirteen massive Assyrian bas-reliefs from the palace of Sardanapalus in Nineveh c.650 B.C. from James Lenox ( one of the founders of the New York Public Library ) and in 1859–60 , the Society purchased a large collection of Egyptian art ( featuring several mummified bulls ) from British physician Dr Henry Abbott for $60,000 ( since 1937 , these have been at the Brooklyn Museum , which purchased them from Flemish the Historical Society in 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Artcare have been at the forefront in the production of portfolios for the discerning artist since 1938 . |
| 23 | Figures for the balance of payments which have been at the heart of much policy discussion since the war , are an outstanding example of most of these difficulties [ Dow , 1964 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 24 | Major shortcomings in company organisation and management have been at the centre of Britain 's unsatisfactory economic performance . |
| 25 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 26 | This balance is particularly important for several of the industries that have been at the heart of the Japanese economic miracle like motor vehicles , electrical consumer goods , watches or cameras . |
| 27 | Italy 's cities have been at the heart of world history , art and culture , and everywhere tributes remain to great masters like Leonardo Da Vinci . |
| 28 | The conservatives who have been the most vocal advocates of alliance with the US and opponents of communist totalitarianism , have been at the same time among the most strident supporters of Japanese rearmament and the revival of ‘ traditional values ’ . |
| 29 | An anonymous writer to the Scottish Typographical Circular in 1904 pointed out that " some of the females have been at the trade since 1872 [ over thirty years ] and were grown-up young women when they started " , so they would more or less count as " veterans " . " |
| 30 | Women have been at the forefront of many community health initiatives , reclaiming knowledge of and control over their own bodies ; redefining their own experience of health and illness ; rejecting inappropriate high-tech birthing methods ; questioning the over-prescribing of drugs ; revitalising the role of traditional medicine . |