Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literally thousands of people have benefited form Nancy 's instruction and she has perhaps been one of the greatest advocates of the Sunday Painter school , encouraging an increase in the popularity of painting as a pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life . |
| 2 | In the past , the NHS has perhaps been guilty of seeing structures and organisational change as the outcome measures of new initiatives . |
| 3 | I have hitherto been guilty of no very enormous or vile actions . |
| 4 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 7 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 8 | Njiru had apparently been relieved of the chairmanship of a local branch of the ruling Kenya National African Union ( KANU ) in May 1992 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 11 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 12 | The modernist council properties have long been one of the strongest fiefdoms of professionalized architecture , being extremely closely linked to development planning and local political interests , and subject to the intervention of both civic authorities and the state . |
| 13 | Then the National Front Leader , Dr Mosadeq , who had long been one of the most fiery and articulate proponents of nationalization , was appointed prime minister over the objections of the Shah , and became an extraordinary actor on the stage of the world . |
| 14 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |
| 15 | Edinburgh has long been one of the pre-eminent centres of linguistics in Britain . |
| 16 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 17 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Oriental philosophies have long been conscious of the ultimate duality of awareness . |
| 20 | Autocratic , powerful and ambitious , he had long been jealous of the Emperor and had aspired to be made a Negus . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In England , a number of reported criminal cases reveal instances of marital rape and women 's organisations have long been aware of the problem . |
| 24 | Industrial managers and behavioural scientists have long been aware of the need to introduce choice and control in the workplace . |
| 25 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 26 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 29 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 30 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |