Example sentences of "always been [art] [noun] of [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | After all one of the dogmas of the Protestant faith has always been a freedom of choice . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sport had always been a part of village life and Halling has a long association with all forms of sport . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ War has always been a part of man 's life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of course Wyvis Hall is mine , it 's always been a matter of fact it would be mine . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
| 20 | There was a balance of power — but there had always been a balance of power . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But maybe it 's because I 'm Irish , and there 's always been a lot of sadness in Irish poetry . |
| 23 | There 's always been a lot of irony in the songs ; people seem to take so much at face value , so literally , and that 's a shame . ’ |
| 24 | While Shetland has probably always been a sort of filling-station for birds on migration , it is too big an area for even the most energetic birdwatcher to cover , and thousands of birds arrive and depart unseen . |
| 25 | There has always been an element of surprise at the discovery that Britain is not wholly urbanised . |
| 26 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there has always been an undercurrent of concern that the correlation between the economic performance of Japan and Germany and their bank-based financing systems might be a causal one — in which case the UK 's poorer economic performance might have something to do with her market-based industrial financing system . |
| 28 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 29 | The indigenous peoples have ‘ always been the instruments of labour and of production , but not the recipients of social benefits from the government ’ . |
| 30 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |