Example sentences of "[verb] always [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with learning to scuba dive , swim with dolphins , become an astronaut or climb Everest , one of my ambitions has always been to take time out to become really familiar with the business end of a recording studio . |
| 2 | In fact the goal has always been to make newcomers adopt both the language and the values of the white , Anglo majority . |
| 3 | The essence of Sunday trading legislation has always been to protect shop workers , who traditionally have always been abused . |
| 4 | A main preoccupation of the laws of war has always been placing limits on the scope and ferocity of war : hence the large number of rules restricting the use of indiscriminate weapons ; and protecting neutrals , civilians and prisoners of war . |
| 5 | Since obtaining its identity as No 412 ( Transport ) Squadron at Rockcliffe on 1 Apr 49 , the principal role of the squadron has always been to provide transportation for high level military and government personnel . |
| 6 | The primary aim of the Youth Training Programme has always been to provide training with a strong emphasis on the application of skills . |
| 7 | Erm the policy panel that erm looked at this erm a week before Christmas was erm I hate to disagree with you with Peter we are not exactly unanimous in this views on terminal five and this is reflected in the erm , the Liberal Democrat resolution erm , past policy of this Council has always been to favour expansion at Heathrow rather than of Stansted and we are being asked today to confirm this stance at the forthcoming enquiry and well we 're not faced with an either or situation . |
| 8 | Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position . |
| 9 | ‘ My real name 's Veronica , but I 've always been called Ronni . ’ |
| 10 | Nigel 's usual way of putting women off had always been to cancel dates with ineffectual excuses . |
| 11 | He had had his own darkroom , and had always been taking pictures . |
| 12 | The point of the alternative foreign policy had always been to prevent war , not to prepare for it . |
| 13 | The lighting and keeping of the hearth fire have always been given significance in human culture ; the Greeks named their goddess of the hearth Hestia , later to be replaced by the Roman Vesta , whose handmaidens were the famous Vestal Virgins . |