Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Naish must have been disappointed at the members ' Extraordinary General Meeting on June 5th when his three-part motion failed to get the necessary 2:1 majority ( For 125 , Against 103 ) . |
| 2 | It ca n't have been easy at first . ’ |
| 3 | She was expected to knock and enter the insured person 's house without waiting for a reply , something that would not have been possible at the door of a middle class household . |
| 4 | Surely it would have been possible at least to give the number of people who had been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , and the number of people subsequently charged . |
| 5 | On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " . |
| 6 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 7 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 8 | He must have been uncomfortable at the least but he never once even laid his ears back . |
| 9 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 10 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 11 | The seaside photographer who promises ‘ Memories to treasure ’ with every happy snap might have been present at every major golfing occasion in the Eighties as the players of the age showed their capacity for repeating and exceeding the highwater marks of the very recent past . |
| 12 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 13 | Foinavon 's win may have been due at least in part to the somewhat unorthodox individual training of his young handler , John Kempton . |
| 14 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 15 | Mehmed el-Fenari ; and he not unnaturally concludes that Molla Fenari must still have been alive at that date . |
| 16 | Such a star would probably have been close at hand — it is considered to be an early stage in the evolution of stars like the Sun . |
| 17 | They would have been close at hand my Lord erm I just do n't know , it may be that , I think they were probably in a vehicle also close at hand ready to . |
| 18 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 19 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |
| 20 | Only from a record that would have been available at the police station or from officers knowledge . |
| 21 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 22 | Being such a shrewd organizer he would probably have been delighted at the speed . |
| 23 | And : ‘ Nigel would have been delighted at your success and I was very moved by your point that at no time was he attended or touched by any but those close to him . |
| 24 | Participants were asked to write the letter so that , if they had really received it , they would have been delighted at how many of their own aspirations as a teacher had been fulfilled — at least for this one pupil . |
| 25 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 26 | And Sarah Morey would tell her that it did n't matter , though on any other day she would have been irritable at the delay . |
| 27 | Some were excellent comedians and would not have been out-of-place at The Palace Theatre . |
| 28 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 29 | BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season . |
| 30 | A jolly little incident in Kwiksave that you would have been amused at dear . |