Example sentences of "[vb past] always been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always been a superb judge of character , but now he doubted himself . |
| 2 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 3 | Fishing had always been a major industry . |
| 4 | British Merseybeat had always been a no-go era . |
| 5 | Sport had always been a prominent source of news in its own right . |
| 6 | ( There had always been a certain lifelessness about Jane — I felt it even as a child . |
| 7 | Zambia had always been a black cloud in Jordan 's sky , but he could never work out why . |
| 8 | In addition to art and history , travel of any kind had always been a powerful addiction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 11 | Theirs had always been a smoke-free household . |
| 12 | The FDP 's radical wing was dissatisfied with these policies , but there had always been a strong laissez-faire economic tradition in the party and the SDP were now too divided to make suitable partners in government . |
| 13 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 14 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 15 | Mrs Harrison had always been a keen gardener and they had built a rockery , down which a small stream flowed with the aid of an electric pump . |
| 16 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 17 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 18 | After the war interest was again roused over Piltdown Man who had always been a sore point with anthropologists who could never really accept him . |
| 19 | Branson 's living arrangements had always been a moveable feast , a reflection of the lack of boundaries between his work and private life . |
| 20 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 21 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 22 | Steve had always been a natural upsetter of any apple-cart his foot came near , whereas Jim Gordon was a sheriff at heart . |
| 23 | But Paul figured John had always been a stubborn bastard , and loved him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There had always been a sympathetic ear for her clients , and she longed to pour out all her troubles right away . |
| 26 | The social life is an important facet of university education , and Eva had always been a sociable person . |
| 27 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 28 | Since the publication of the General Theory there had always been a nagging sense of unease at the treatment of prices in Keynesian macroeconomics . |
| 29 | The Sunday Times had always been a special paper , particularly in the Harold Evans days , when , with stories like Thalidomide and the Insight coverage of Northern Ireland , it could lay claim to being the greatest in the world . |
| 30 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |