Example sentences of "have been [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with .
2 ‘ The liaison has been with all of the functional groups within the computer centre : analysis and programming , operations , user services , communications and technical support and data preparation .
3 Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable .
4 Nor can there be any claim that the laws-of-war approach has been at all decisive anywhere in illuminating the issue of the legality or otherwise of possession of such weapons .
5 The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
6 Anyways , its quite funny — Souness has been after all our midfielders at some stage ( except Strach AFAIK ) , now he s moving onto our reserves .
7 I see Chummy has been round all the desks . ’
8 Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night .
9 What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars .
10 GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that .
11 He 'd been along all these paths before .
12 She would n't have been at all surprised if she were .
13 The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books .
14 This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines .
15 ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly .
16 Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ?
17 Said it 'll have been in all day .
18 Having been off all winter , we are now on the long road back to full fitness , and my main worry , having recently started trotting , is finding somewhere where the going is n't too hard .
19 Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career .
20 She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’
21 Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family .
22 In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee .
23 Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death .
24 Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob .
25 Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting .
26 She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened .
27 I had been on all the northern capitals .
28 But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all .
29 Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’
30 They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had .
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