Example sentences of "been at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 2 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 3 | While they were there , Peggy ( who had been at a boarding school in Pretoria ) was able to resume her ballet classes . |
| 4 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 5 | Shipbuilding work at the Scotstoun yard has been at a standstill for a fortnight since pay negotiations broke down . |
| 6 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 7 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 8 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 9 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 10 | ‘ Mine never has been at a Channel port . |
| 11 | EEC trade , as measured at least by exports , has , since British accession , been at a rate of growth of about that of the OECD as a whole — well below that of the newly industrialised countries of Asia and exactly equal to that of the Efta countries . |
| 12 | Community care has disappointed not just because social work — or other professional time — has been at a premium , but because services have been lacking . |
| 13 | Londoner Ken Butler moved to the Fens 12 years ago , where space has never been at a premium , to carry on his profession of carpenter specialising in reproduction furniture . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Miss Emily Grenfell had momentarily been at a loss , wanting to know where her fiance was and realizing to her dismay that his safety was in the hands of the shoemaker 's daughter . |
| 15 | He had no idea what he was going to do and if the crow had ignored hid he would probably have been at a loss . |
| 16 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 17 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 18 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 19 | Have you been at a party where you found yourself in a room and people started skinning up ? |
| 20 | You must have been at a party . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 25 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 26 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |
| 27 | Not since Alexandra Palace in North London has the Great British Beer Festival been at a site with so much style and heritage . |
| 28 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 29 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 30 | 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 . |