Example sentences of "[noun] have always been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Festival has always been a popular meeting place for people interested in all areas of film and television , and this year we are pleased to host a one day workshop for BLACK WOMEN WRITERS . |
| 32 | It is perhaps surprising that plant tissues contain substances which affect animals , but plants have always been a useful source of drugs , and indigenous remedies from all parts of the world were studied when research interests expanded after 1945 . |
| 33 | The notion that the royal family should be kept on because it is a tourist attraction has always been a ludicrous one . |
| 34 | Deviant behaviour has always been a popular topic for ethnographic research . |
| 35 | Because of its pivotal role in sustaining the apartheid system , education has always been a central political issue , and is perceived by all parties to the conflict as a terrain over which political struggle occurs . |
| 36 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 37 | In fact Benitses has always been a rocking resort , and over the past couple of years has become even more exciting . |
| 38 | fairclough has always been a good defender ( ex England U21 ) , but he s excellent when given a job , like marking Tony Daley out of the game . |
| 39 | The UK has always been a net exporter of carpets and its reputation for quality has worldwide acclaim . |
| 40 | ‘ Murtach has always been a deep one , trusting no counsel but his own . |
| 41 | Dining out in attractive surroundings at a reasonable price has always been a sought-after concept . |
| 42 | Benjamin Titford — the name had always been a popular one with the Carpenter family — was born on 15 December 1786 , and was baptised along with his ill-fated sister Lydia and brother Charles Thynne at St John 's on 27 May 1792 , Whit Sunday . |
| 43 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 44 | For instance the Johnson Collection has always been a separate time line on the first floor . |
| 45 | Quality has always been a key differentiating factor between short-term gain and long-term success . |
| 46 | The North Pier has always been a focal point of the tramway : in this early scene , car 5 is loading for South Shore , while open-sided car 7 is bounded for Cocker Street . |
| 47 | The area has always been a major centre for the narcotics trade . |
| 48 | The word political is somewhat unsuitable in the circumstances , since my own political stance has always been a pragmatic one . |
| 49 | To the compounders of explosives , ammonium nitrate has always been a useful cheap ‘ extender ’ for expensive nitro-organic explosives . |
| 50 | Branson 's living arrangements had always been a moveable feast , a reflection of the lack of boundaries between his work and private life . |
| 51 | William Langdon , Hodge 's political adviser , told Byrnes on 20 November that the Korean people had always been a distinct nation except for the short colonial period and possessed high literacy , cultural and living standards , when judged by Asiatic or Middle Eastern standards : if trusteeship was approved , it would have to be supported by force . |
| 52 | If the pain which he had whenever he had anything the matter with his finger had always been a throbbing pain , and the pain caused by anything the matter with any other part of his body had never been a throbbing pain , then now , on experiencing a throbbing pain , he would naturally associate it with his finger . |
| 53 | This man has always been a great study , Emily thought . |
| 54 | And that time limit , or DOPACS units , in the past has always been a wee bit nebulous . |
| 55 | Throughout his distinguished career — the Barcelona Olympics were his ninth with the BBC — David Coleman has always been a true professional . |
| 56 | The Russian army has always been a large one , much larger than those of other continental states , and military spending has always been a disproportionately heavy burden on public finances . |
| 57 | While the Polish church has always been a vital element in the Poles ' national identity , neither the Protestant nor the Catholic churches in Germany — much less East Germany — have ever had this function . |
| 58 | The damned man had always been a total workaholic . |
| 59 | Steve had always been a natural upsetter of any apple-cart his foot came near , whereas Jim Gordon was a sheriff at heart . |
| 60 | Now I know it 's a lot to expect , what with your sister still only nineteen , and the old a ‘ Buck ’ being every year of sixty five , so they tells me , but May and September 's always been a heady mix , and the old fool seems besotted . ’ |