Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] always [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 2 | Of the two main sources of pearls those from marine molluscs have always been preferred to those from freshwater . |
| 3 | Social security has always been committed to meeting a reasonable rate . |
| 4 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 5 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 6 | Laura had often wondered whether their union had always been doomed to failure … whether her deep unhappiness at the sudden death of her mother , and her father 's disastrous illness , had merely accelerated the inevitable swift decline and end to her marriage . |
| 7 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 8 | Mr. Andrew has always been devoted to Kate , Mr. Mottram , but I could n't say the same about her . |
| 9 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 10 | Psychologists and physiologists have always been resigned to using statistical analyses to extract meaning from and interpret their data . |
| 11 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 12 | For the Japanese no such decision was necessary because their home market had always been used to small cars . |