Example sentences of "been at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 2 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 3 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 4 | Since political values have often been at stake in conflicts over social policy , the very character of the ideological issue has precluded a cool appraisal of all the policy options . |
| 5 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 6 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 7 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 9 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 10 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 11 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 12 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 13 | I have also been at work for eighteen hours in an icy room with one thin sandwich and one wretched cup of coffee to sustain me . |
| 14 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 15 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
| 16 | However , since 1977 various other forces have been at work in the cities and , consequently , have affected the efficacy and relevance of inner-urban policy . |
| 17 | The contributors follow the modern theory that Christians need to discover the areas in which the Holy Spirit has been at work in heathen faiths . |
| 18 | It has been a great privilege to see how God has been at work in their lives and to be part of His plan for these men . |
| 19 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 20 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 21 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 22 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's influence may also have been at work in the selection of a duchy of Lancaster lawyer as the new recorder of London in June 1483 , although the man concerned ( Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe , Lincs. ) preserved a studied neutrality when , only days after his appointment , he found himself in the middle of the deposition crisis . |
| 24 | Thefts warning : Thieves have also been at work in outhouses and cars around the village . |
| 25 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 26 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 27 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 28 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 29 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 30 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |