Example sentences of "[adv] been one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literally thousands of people have benefited form Nancy 's instruction and she has perhaps been one of the greatest advocates of the Sunday Painter school , encouraging an increase in the popularity of painting as a pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life . |
| 2 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 3 | It has long been one of the curiosities of our political history that the previous all-time record was set by a party that actually lost the election , Clement Attlee 's Labour Party in 1951 . |
| 4 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 5 | The modernist council properties have long been one of the strongest fiefdoms of professionalized architecture , being extremely closely linked to development planning and local political interests , and subject to the intervention of both civic authorities and the state . |
| 6 | Then the National Front Leader , Dr Mosadeq , who had long been one of the most fiery and articulate proponents of nationalization , was appointed prime minister over the objections of the Shah , and became an extraordinary actor on the stage of the world . |
| 7 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |
| 8 | Edinburgh has long been one of the pre-eminent centres of linguistics in Britain . |
| 9 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 10 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 11 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 12 | This is a scaled-down version of Blaggdon , and has always been one of my early-season pilgrimages . |
| 13 | This has always been one of my favourite houses . |
| 14 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 15 | The club Choice Brisa has always been one of our favourite hotels in Ibiza because it has everything that Club guests are looking for . |
| 16 | Foxton Locks has always been one of the most popular attractions in the Leicestershire countryside . |
| 17 | Has Die Ägyptische Helena indeed ‘ always been one of the least known of Richard Strauss 's operas ’ ? |
| 18 | ‘ This clump here has always been one of the worst , ’ Anderson said , indicating a spot near where he stood . |
| 19 | I 'd have to say that Deuce was the most aggressive and distorted band around Washington , and that 's always been one of my attitudes : to be the most aggressive , no-holds-barred type of player that I can possibly be . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a time-honoured tradition , and ‘ She 's A Woman ’ has always been one of my favourite songs . |
| 21 | ‘ Mull of Kintyre by Wings has always been one of my most hated records . |
| 22 | Humanitarianism has always been one of the major motivations making for socialism . |
| 23 | But over the years Laura has always been one of Diana 's closest confidantes . |
| 24 | It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant , and this we discussed with extreme earnestness . |
| 25 | ‘ Ray has always been one of the most popular and respected figures around for his ability and conduct , and I 'm sure he will prove an outstanding signing for Villa . ’ |
| 26 | That 's always been one of Father 's maxims . |
| 27 | You 've always been one of the gentry , used to grand balls and such . ’ |
| 28 | Pam Shriver has always been one of the most colourful tennis professionals . |
| 29 | Generation of standard useful attitudes has always been one of the main purposes of military training . |
| 30 | That has always been one of the most heartening aspects of county cricket : mutual help , irrespective of the teams they represent . |