Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was no more alert to my environment than a sick animal and I must have somehow been aware of that , because it was then that I remembered the starveling cat . |
| 4 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 5 | I have always been nervous of dying , but not of death . |
| 6 | What has always been true of secondary schools is now becoming true of primary schools also , and one of the main vehicles for that change is the Education Reform Act . |
| 7 | Having always been sceptical of such high figures for repairs being bandied about , we commissioned our own structural survey which , more reassuringly , estimated the cost of urgent repairs to be £250,000 . |
| 8 | He and Franca had always been fond of each other . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’ |
| 10 | The PUK had not always been devoid of outside help , having at one stage been supported by Syria before entering into negotiations with Baghdad in 1984 for a new deal for Iraqi Kurds to improve on the Autonomous Region status conceded them under a mosaic of earlier legislation . |
| 11 | In achieving this remarkable success , Roddick has always been scornful of traditional business credos . |
| 12 | Its formidable bulk means that you are unlikely to want to carry it about with you if you can avoid it , but that has probably been true of most audit manuals for some time now . |
| 13 | The boards of banks and insurance companies , for example , have traditionally been full of long lists of the great and good . |
| 14 | Ray French does not possess Moorhouse 's gifts as a writer , but he has never been short of constructive opinion , good ideas or a sense of humour , qualities readily apparent in More Kinds of Rugby . |