Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
| 2 | Chemicals has been ahead of the legislators , with 60 people already trained as manual handling assessors after completing a course devised with the help of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 3 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 4 | Ade had raced Yevgeniev a number of times before that , in Paris in 1985 and in the European Indoor of 1984 , and had never beaten him , and I do n't think he would have been ahead of the Russian this time either . |
| 5 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 6 | Indeed , in some of his pronouncements Adler seems to have been ahead of his time . |
| 7 | The Headmaster 's ideas on discipline seem to have been ahead of the times . |
| 8 | In the classical trade cycle , which is agreed to have been normally of between nine and twelve years , the time proportional factor was of the same order . |
| 9 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 10 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 11 | Real income per head of the UK population was lower in the mid-1980s than in eleven other advanced capitalist countries , while even in 1953 only three ( the US , Canada and Sweden ) had been ahead of the UK . |
| 12 | She had been right of course . |
| 13 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 14 | The earlier specification of the ‘ liberal arts ’ had been primarily of branches of knowledge . |
| 15 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 16 | Historically ‘ Wargames ’ have been either of ‘ macro ’ variety — the strategic/tactical type such as SSI 's Second Front or Broderbund 's Patton Strikes Back , or the ‘ micro ’ type such as Microprose 's M Tank Platoon or Lucasfilms Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We have been ahead of the game , compared with most , because British industry is more used to competition for domestic public works . ’ |