Example sentences of "have [adv] been of " in BNC.
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| 31 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 32 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 33 | He knows we have always been of the view that given the limited resources that the best cost effective use of those resources would be to merge the administration . |
| 34 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 35 | It is often the case that the specializing groups are of type ( i ) , with formal membership , but they have also been of types ( ii ) and ( iii ) . |
| 36 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |