Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open Tues — Sun 12.30 — 2.30 except Sat , Tues — Sat 7.30 — 10.30 C4 S5 V5 £40 ( three-course lunch £13.50 including coffee ) St Quentin ( 071 589 8005 ) 243 Brompton Road , London SW3 Smart South Ken canteen opposite the Oratory has always been terrific value ; now it 's got cooking with the flair to match its friendly , highly efficient French service and jolly brasserie decor — all mirrors and panelling . |
| 2 | ‘ Our overriding aim of all of us with the rest of the LUF has always been local provision of a self-contained stand-alone unit specifically for leukaemia and other haematology patients , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |
| 4 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 5 | Aircraft have again been probing Falklands airspace and recently an Argentinian flag was planted on Southern Thule . |
| 6 | Sydney and Brisbane have always been strong rugby cities but Perth 's astonishing ratings figures have delighted the ARFU . |
| 7 | So many members of the Council had also been conspicuous supporters of Jane that only Northumberland was immediately executed . |
| 8 | The few who have dealt with this subject from an alternative political standpoint have mainly been liberal Conservatives , concerned to meet the needs of casualties of the social system but suspicious of the claims of the state to regulate many aspects of our lives . |
| 9 | If we look at the context of Tawney 's 1957 address to the extra-mural department at London University , we find that the idea that all serious educational movements in England have also been social movements was no intellectual abstraction . |
| 10 | Anyway , my father and his theatrical consortium have always been great fans of Trumpton . |
| 11 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 12 | But where a discharger has regularly been outside consent , standards have been relaxed to accord with the existing performance in 95 per cent of samples taken . |
| 13 | Superdrug claims until now up to sixty per cent of the perfume price has simply been pure profit for the retailer . |
| 14 | ‘ That price has always been extreme vigilance , ’ the QC said . |
| 15 | The warm spell has also been good news for workers at the factory after a difficult year when 67 people were made redundant when their parent company , Clarke Foods , collapsed last year . |
| 16 | A Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance had also been busy campaigning since 1980 , particularly over plans to expand the two nuclear power station sites at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa in North Wales . |
| 17 | The Netherlands , Switzerland and Luxembourg have traditionally been popular locations for holding companies in Europe . |
| 18 | With young players of the calibre of Phil O'Donnell , Motherwell have always been unlikely candidates for the drop . |
| 19 | The type of front-line workers who are generally regarded as paraprofessionals have always been important participants in social service activities throughout the world . |
| 20 | Best alternatives for holidaying dog owners have traditionally been kindly neighbours or kennels , but a York-based hotel chain say you can take it with you ( your pup , that is ) . |
| 21 | Mathematics competitions in the UK have traditionally been elitist affairs designed to single out a few extraordinary individuals and effectively to exclude the rest . |
| 22 | Yet language difficulties have never been insurmountable barriers . |
| 23 | One of the points to emerge in later chapters will be that eminent scientific figures have rarely been typical representatives of the religious traditions in which they were nurtured . |
| 24 | Capodimonte has always been collectable Dennis , it 's never gone , never gone down in in popularity . |
| 25 | As for the tabloids , additions to the range of publications have either been arm's-length extensions of existing publishing groups ( Today , 1986 — ) or born out of existing publishing houses ( Mail on Sunday , 1983 — , Star , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Taylor said : ‘ The FA have always been good employers to all the previous managers who have suffered as I am suffering the kind of criticism that is about . |
| 27 | But whereas this in all probability had previously been secret lore imparted through oral tradition , with Evan it was willingly shared and brought into the public domain . |
| 28 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 29 | Local management of schools , giving parents more information , and the assessing of schools , children and teachers have all been good ideas . |
| 30 | He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge . |