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

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1 Interest has been phenomenal with all Areas represented by ladies 7s and gents 11s .
2 ‘ The spirit has been good through all these bad days we 've had lately , but it was even better today and everyone hoped the money was a sign things are turning round . ’
3 Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants .
4 ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better .
5 Retirement has been central to all of these , although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored .
6 It was Esquire 's dubious achievement to be born into an economy that has been unkind to all , but one in which the advertising business has been particularly hard-pressed .
7 He has been consistent in all his 33 appearances in which he has scored six goals . ’
8 Warren , 61 , has been involved in all aspects of reprocessing research and development .
9 During the years has been involved in all aspects of malt production , holding management posts at Bath , Salisbury , Abingdon and Gloucester .
10 We can see that the Government law and order policy has been irrelevant to all crime , including upper-world crime , and indeed that its social and economic policy has caused the crime rate to rise .
11 Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Transport and General Workers Union has been wrong on all the major issues facing the country in the past 12 years ?
12 Erm are you saying then that erm you have actually quantified and and related that in some way to the the damage which has been evident through all of the statements from Harrogate Borough Council , to in fact the N Y C C and acknowledged by the N Y C of the environmental impact that this will have .
13 The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad .
14 This too has been conspicuous in all the areas of business which we have examined ; but never before when when he was likely to be confronted with so much debate and such a variety of decisions .
15 But now he did n't think he 'd been harsh at all .
16 There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day .
17 On Nov. 25 Kohl condemned the attacks and reminded Germans that " without these foreigners , the affluence of this country would not have been possible at all " .
18 Oswiu 's involvement must have been minimal in all of them .
19 I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all .
20 This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) .
21 I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back .
22 ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Kraal finally , ‘ it would have been better after all . ’
23 Detectives believe the same gunman may have been involved in all three killings , firing one shot before disappearing , and then leaving other terrorists to dismantle the rifle .
24 Antoine might have been blind on all normal frequencies but he knew how to assemble his do-it-yourself rig by touch and she marvelled at his deftness .
25 What remains puzzling is why the book should have been notorious at all .
26 It is unlikely that this rate would have been acceptable to all members .
27 The potential benefits in facilities alone should have been obvious to all , he thinks .
28 There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial .
29 Such stories as these must have been common in all religious communities , but the constant recurrence of these themes in Eadmer 's recollections leaves the impression that his thoughts , and those of the monks with whom he had lived since his infancy , were centred almost exclusively on their relics , and on the stories of the gifts , purchases , translations , and miracles associated with them .
30 As for Constantine 's ‘ conversion ’ — if that is the appropriate word — it does not appear to have been Christian at all , but conventionally pagan .
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