Example sentences of "have be [adj] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 2 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 3 | It became a decisive and dangerous piece of initiative and the escaper got the credit of it having been that all the time . |
| 4 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 5 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 6 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 7 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 8 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 9 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 10 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 12 | It 's been hot all the car is going along the motorway at a constant speed . |