Example sentences of "always [been] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 2 | The Church Commissioners , however , had always been reluctant to vest urban churches in the Redundant Churches Fund and made it absolutely clear that they considered All Souls would impose an impossible burden on the resources of the Fund . |
| 3 | Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Middle-class ideals of ‘ playing the game ’ have always been alien to rough working-class culture . |
| 5 | McClellan has always been careful to stress that use of the stock control system must be counterbalanced by other aspects of the book provision process . |
| 6 | In spite of the considerable popularity of Tough 's framework , she has not subjected the specific strategies to a rigorous examination of reliability and , when other researchers have attempted to replicate her work , they have not always been able to demonstrate good agreement between different observers ( Wells 1979 ) . |
| 7 | As the ITVA 's rules on comparative whiteness claims in detergent ads have tightened , the ( by now ) several Persil products have not always been able to use this theme , but its development over such a long period was an astonishing piece of consistency by client management and virtuosity by the agency . |
| 8 | ‘ We have the best trained , the best qualified law enforcement officers that can be found in any major city in the world so we have always been able to maintain solid protection for our community without having the comparable size departments that other cities have , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The department had always been able to prosecute unhygienic premises it was just a question of finding them . |
| 10 | They really had no choice in the matter for he had always been able to threaten any dissenters , or strays , with the loss of their union cards . |
| 11 | Throughout the years , ICI chemists have always been able to make good use of the profusion of basic materials available on Teesside to make more complex organic compounds . |