Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been intensely frightened of those dolls as a young boy . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because she herself had subsequently been extremely wary of any emotional entanglements . |
| 5 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She has been highly critical of many established institutions , such as the senior civil service , Foreign Office , Bank of England , universities , and local government . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both the Labour and Communist parties had already been highly critical of some Jewish employers before the fascists arrived in the area . |
| 11 | He had been so proud of that sauce now so stale and unappetising . |
| 12 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 13 | No writer has been more aware of this feature , or more effective in recording it , than Gerald Brodribb . |
| 14 | It would have been more worthy of those now dancing on Mr Punch 's grave to acknowledge the part they played in his illness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Michael Collins had been an active sympathiser who had , he suspected , been well aware of some odd uses that the farm at Hackballs Cross had been put to , and who had , maybe , done more than sympathise . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As the block lies close to the coast the partners have been particularly aware of local environmental sensitivities . |
| 24 | English people , relying as they do on the creation of an invisible but supposedly recognizable barrier of reserve to ensure personal privacy in public places , have always been particularly appreciative of this form of tact . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Alexander had , up to now , been completely ignorant of this habit , and anything that he did to change it only made the situation worse . |
| 28 | The domestic banking system has ( since the early 1980s ) been completely free of formal restrictions on the supply of credit and has not been subject to reserve requirements . |
| 29 | Dr Starkie appears to have been serenely unaware of this enlightening passage . |
| 30 | Bill would have been very proud of that moment . ’ |