Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | This has been particularly true of recent years , in , say the 15-year office building boom which succeeded the sudden end to the penultimate property crash of 1973/4 . |
| 3 | No writer has been more aware of this feature , or more effective in recording it , than Gerald Brodribb . |
| 4 | Such sequences of vegetation change and human impact are typical of many areas and it would not be unreasonable to suggest that no area of the British Isles has been entirely free of human activities or their indirect consequences — the landscape we see today is as much an artifact of human creation as any historical site . |
| 5 | She has been highly critical of many established institutions , such as the senior civil service , Foreign Office , Bank of England , universities , and local government . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 7 | Second , the existing practice of the revenue under the pre-1976 law was not to tax benefits in kind on the average cost basis and those who were asking questions on behalf of their constituents would have been well aware of this fact . |
| 8 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 9 | Now one hundred and nineteen for four , Tufnell bowls this one , forward goes and the ball trickles up towards and another maiden over so now they 've had sixteen overs , ten maidens for seventeen and er I think in the old days you would have been quite proud of those figures erm Victor . |
| 10 | Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’ |
| 11 | It would have been more worthy of those now dancing on Mr Punch 's grave to acknowledge the part they played in his illness . |
| 12 | Dr Starkie appears to have been serenely unaware of this enlightening passage . |
| 13 | Some students , when making a choice , had been strongly aware of peer-group pressure and pressure from teachers who said that a science qualification led to jobs : |
| 14 | He had been intensely frightened of those dolls as a young boy . |
| 15 | His sister Elizabeth had preferred not to attend the ceremony for fear of appearing to condone his alliance with one of her housemaids , and the Bradfords ' staff had been equally disapproving of one of their number presuming to move up into such illustrious circles . |
| 16 | Ferguson , in fact , had been fiercely critical of those Dissenters who had taken advantage of James II 's Declaration of Indulgence of 1687 ; by 1690 , however , he had turned Jacobite . |
| 17 | Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs , had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters . |
| 18 | He had been so proud of that sauce now so stale and unappetising . |
| 19 | Support for the reform programme came from a loose coalition of liberal and independent deputies which , in the past , had been highly critical of British policy towards Hong Kong . |
| 20 | Australian environmentalist groups have been strongly critical of Prime Minister Paul Keating 's first major statement on environmental policy since he took office in mid-1992 . |
| 21 | As the block lies close to the coast the partners have been particularly aware of local environmental sensitivities . |
| 22 | Psychiatrists , too , have been periodically sceptical of multiple personality disorder , though cases of it appear in the medical literature as far back as the mid-1600s . |
| 23 | English-speaking countries , however , have been relatively unaware of this activity because of language barriers , or if aware of any aspect of it have turned a blind eye due to a lack of understanding of the background of the method or a disinterest in the findings of Quantum Physics . |
| 24 | Local authorities in the UK that have declared themselves ‘ nuclear-free ’ have been highly critical of British planning , calling for an extension of emergency zones to at least 24 km . |