Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 2 | In this country , where the concept of science has always been the narrower one associated with the paradigm of the natural sciences , there is still in most institutions a very firm institutional demarcation between arts or humanities on the one hand and the social sciences on the other , a demarcation which will be explored later . |
| 3 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 4 | More recently , profitable crops have often been a greater consideration than improving the taste of the apple . |
| 5 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |