Example sentences of "have [adv] been of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of mimicking was described by the great biologist Henry Bates in the l9th century ; and such Batesian mimicry has long been of interest , particularly to students of evolution . |
| 2 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 3 | Cultural theorists fell on pop video with squeals of delight ( there is already more high theory of video around than there has ever been of music ) ; pop fans watching the Whistle Test 's weekly video vote just groaned . |
| 4 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 5 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 6 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 7 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 8 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 9 | Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past . |
| 10 | The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company . |
| 11 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 12 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 13 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 14 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 15 | The fact that he has also been of service to AIM is a bonus . |
| 16 | The nature and extent of housing programmes in the post-war years has therefore been of great significance for urban form , community life and degrees of individual happiness . |
| 17 | Erm , it , perhaps part of it has been that a lot of the job creation mentioned has actually been of female and part-time work , and a lot of the er , new businesses in erm , Telford actually employ a lot of women in , in those areas . |
| 18 | I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused . |
| 19 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 20 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 21 | " The Madam always loved her children , " Nuala said , remembering how proud Katherine had always been of them . |
| 22 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 23 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 24 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 25 | My poetry had never been of so much practical use to me before . |
| 26 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 27 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 28 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 29 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 30 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |