Example sentences of "[adv] been a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 2 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 3 | There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat . |
| 4 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 5 | A brief literature review of the popular sedimentological journals indicates an increasing emphasis on petrography within Europe , whereas within the United States and Canada sedimentary petrology has for long been a necessary component of integrated sedimentological research projects . |
| 6 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
| 7 | Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career . |
| 8 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 9 | Agricultural hard labour , primarily the cultivation of cotton , had long been a prominent feature of TDC activity . |
| 10 | The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country . |
| 11 | It had also long been a great source of amusement to the more belligerent regulars as they watched the uninitiated stumble in and sit down . |
| 12 | Local rates have long been a controversial source of local authority income . |
| 13 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 14 | This , too , is unlikely , for Mr Morita has long been a noisy critic of America and was saying nothing new . |
| 15 | More importantly , the amalgamation of consular with diplomatic services , the ending of the inferior status to which the former ( and therefore by implication all commercial considerations ) had traditionally been relegated , had for long been a favourite panacea of reformers in several countries . |
| 16 | Mr Goria , 49 , a former Christian Democrat prime minister , had long been a favourite target of opposition MPs and was unpopular in the country because of the chaotic and tactless way he introduced a hated property tax last year . |
| 17 | And sometimes I wonder whether it has n't all been a complete waste of time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Instead she has , in effect , admitted that the problems have obviously been a major topic of conversation at the highest level . ’ |
| 19 | There had already been a violent expression of xenophobic sentiment earlier in the year when China 's football team failed to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 20 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 21 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 22 | The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) . |
| 23 | I 've always been a strong advocate of public service broadcasting , such an important element in this influential means of communication . |
| 24 | In the United States , what we now recognise as social psychology has always been a rich vein of thought . |
| 25 | For legendary country star Johnny Cash , America 's history has always been a rich source of material — and dressing up ! |
| 26 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 27 | It is perhaps surprising that plant tissues contain substances which affect animals , but plants have always been a useful source of drugs , and indigenous remedies from all parts of the world were studied when research interests expanded after 1945 . |
| 28 | The pentatonic major scale is and has always been a pre-eminent part of the rock guitarist 's vocabulary . |
| 29 | Charlemagne himself , at once " French " and " German " , has always been a powerful symbol of European domination , a model for both Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II . |
| 30 | He 'd always been a superb judge of character , but now he doubted himself . |