Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the NHS has perhaps been guilty of seeing structures and organisational change as the outcome measures of new initiatives . |
| 2 | I have hitherto been guilty of no very enormous or vile actions . |
| 3 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 4 | Njiru had apparently been relieved of the chairmanship of a local branch of the ruling Kenya National African Union ( KANU ) in May 1992 . |
| 5 | Like Parker , America 's gay activists have long been critical of US Aids policy , arguing the virus has received insufficient priority because it was ‘ only ’ killing gay men . |
| 6 | While the French have long been convinced of the value of massage with natural ingredients in the treatment of cellulite , the British are sometimes sceptical . |
| 7 | Oriental philosophies have long been conscious of the ultimate duality of awareness . |
| 8 | Autocratic , powerful and ambitious , he had long been jealous of the Emperor and had aspired to be made a Negus . |
| 9 | I have long been suspicious of the official line that terminal bonuses are directly attributed to investment surplus and that poor value on death or on policy premium amendment is the price for higher returns if you are lucky enough to make it to retirement . |
| 10 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 11 | In England , a number of reported criminal cases reveal instances of marital rape and women 's organisations have long been aware of the problem . |
| 12 | Industrial managers and behavioural scientists have long been aware of the need to introduce choice and control in the workplace . |
| 13 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 14 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 15 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 16 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 17 | A prisoner had been taken who reported a possibility that the Emperor was with those forces , but the prisoner had not been certain of that fact . |
| 18 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 19 | Wark , who had not been shy of venturing upfield for corners and free-kicks , struck the penalty cleanly enough , but against the crossbar . |
| 20 | Scrappy success has not been typical of Cardinal Vaughan 's start to the season . |
| 21 | With regard to the second , as noted above , teaching study skills across the curriculum has had some impact on thinking but has not been typical of the action taken by project schools . |
| 22 | His letter from Houston had been an update , filling in a range of details that had not been capable of being fitted into coded messages to and from Houston in the form of price-lists of market produce . |
| 23 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 24 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 25 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 26 | Before he slipped into sleep had he not been aware of another kind of light , too luminous for words , the radiance of an undefined , perhaps indefinable force , spirit or presence which was greater than or beyond himself ? |
| 27 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 28 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 29 | Dr. Thackeray had the temporary appointment of physician to the asylum but Mr. Leech had not been aware of the fact . |
| 30 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |