Example sentences of "always [been] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
2 | The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise . |
3 | I 've always been a believer in fate , and that one shot can win or lose an Open . |
4 | Of course , resort to technology has always been a feature of health care , if we mean by that the development and use of skills and tools . |
5 | After all one of the dogmas of the Protestant faith has always been a freedom of choice . |
6 | ‘ Well , he 's always been a bit into death and destruction , ’ Preston conceded . |
7 | Traditions of feminine religious experience , expressing a mystical , quasi-sexual communion with God , had always been a current within Catholicism and in many Protestant sects , and some women drew on its potential . |
8 | Mrs Winston Frederick Churchill Guest , known everywhere simply as C.Z. , has always been a doyenne of taste , leading the type of international life that included friends like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor — ‘ so cute , so tiny , what a chic he had ’ — the Agnellis , Bill and Babe Paley , and the Kennedy 's ( JFK and Jackie ) . |
9 | There has always been a sharing of hymnody across the denominations , and anthems and songs are increasingly being regarded as part of our common musical currency . |
10 | Sport had always been a part of village life and Halling has a long association with all forms of sport . |
11 | I suppose when sport is discussed horse racing has always been a part of village life , a pastime which most of the working men have indulged in . |
12 | ‘ War has always been a part of man 's life . |
13 | They were a kindly couple , rather older than one would have expected , although there had always been a suggestion of old-fashionedness about Dorothy as a child . |
14 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
15 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
16 | Because class size has always been a cause for complaint in primary schools , some heads used their staffing enhancement to create smaller classes . |
17 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |
18 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
19 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
20 | Education had always been a matter for state and local government in the USA and now Kennedy was proposing to give over $2 billion to aid schools , plus over $3 billion to higher education . |
21 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
22 | Of course Wyvis Hall is mine , it 's always been a matter of fact it would be mine . |
23 | He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me . |
24 | It has always been a source of amazement to me that anglers who are prepared to pay upwards of £100 for a rod and reel moan plaintively about the price of perhaps the most important item of tackle : the hook . |
25 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
26 | There was a balance of power — but there had always been a balance of power . |
27 | I do n't know what the reasons why there 's always been a month on month cancellation , maybe it 's difficult to get people together there , maybe there not too enthusiastic . |
28 | There has , unfortunately , always been a trade in baby orangs as pets . |
29 | Captain Phil Davies said : ‘ There has always been a lot of cloak and dagger about this but this is the first year clubs as a whole have indicated the presence of professionals . |
30 | But maybe it 's because I 'm Irish , and there 's always been a lot of sadness in Irish poetry . |