Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adj] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme . |
| 2 | Henley has always been popular with visitors and societies , and in 1935 the British Racing Drivers ' Club came , arranged by Henley Member J.A . |
| 3 | Blaming the victim has always been popular with governments anxious to shrug off the blame attaching to themselves but the Conservative governments of the last decade have been particularly prone to this . |
| 4 | The gun , manufactured by Sturm-Ruger Police Firearm Services of Southport , Connecticut , is described by them as ideal for hunting small game — coyotes , marmots — but has always been popular with criminals and psychopaths . |
| 5 | In approaching these questions , he first argues that the criminal law has always been concerned with morals , or moral principles , and that these moral principles are , in this country , inextricably tied to religion — ‘ the moral standards generally accepted in western civilisation being those belonging to Christianity ’ . |
| 6 | This last wild exaggeration has also been popular with educators at times when they wanted to stress the importance of their task and the need to get it right . |
| 7 | One investigator who has put weight on the relationship with affective , rather than schizophrenic , disorder is the American psychiatrist , Andreasen , whose work , also carried out within a partly genetics context , is of particular interest here because it has mainly been concerned with writers . |
| 8 | The draw could also be decisive in the Cartier Million , run on the dog-leg straight at Phoenix Park , and Cumani has again been fortunate with Cullinan ( 4.0 ) , drawn 16 of 20 . |
| 9 | The first issue interviewed Tyrannosaurus Rex , a band which , in their hippy phase , and before their reappearance as a chart group , T. Rex , had long been popular with Peel . |
| 10 | The common law had largely been concerned with action to restore order after disorder had taken place . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I 've always been bored with Dolores . ’ |
| 12 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |
| 13 | Even then , at twenty , she was beginning to look matronly , and of course be had always been good with animals . |
| 14 | Amal 's father , who had always been uncomfortable with daughters , was stricken by the event , but felt that the boys had done only what any male would do under the circumstances . |
| 15 | Her mother had always been obsessed with Lottie 's wasted opportunities , and that had let May out . |
| 16 | Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have , but I had always been candid with Ted . |
| 17 | His mother had always been careful with money . |
| 18 | Although relations between Russia and Britain had traditionally been fraught with problems since the Crimean War , the deaths caused great distress at Buckingham Palace . |
| 19 | While she worked she wondered what had really been wrong with William . |
| 20 | Attempts to piece together the Declaration [ see also p. 38313 ] had reportedly been fraught with disagreements between the Gulf states , on the one hand , and Egypt and Syria , which were allegedly keen to assume a greater regional role entailing substantial remuneration . |
| 21 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 22 | Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages . |