Example sentences of "[verb] always been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Playing in a Wembley final has always been a dream of mine and I think Saints can get there this season . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Family responsibility to care for its members has become shared with health and education authorities , social security and social services to a greater extent than ever before , and there has always been a concern that the welfare state may undermine family ties and produce welfare dependency . |
| 5 | The flag has always been a symbol of the militant faith of the Salvation Army and in the early days of the movement invariably became the main target for the larrikins or hoodlums who did their best to destroy the marches and meetings . |
| 6 | For David Bailey , photography has always been a diary . |
| 7 | The major obstacle to the restoration of Mantegna 's first documented work has always been a lack of funds , but now a sponsor has come forward in the shape of Francesco Piccolo Brunelli , an engineering contractor of Venetian origin , who lives in Africa . |
| 8 | Perhaps because the mind is the crucial organ in the human body , there has always been a tendency to ostracize such people from society . |
| 9 | There has always been a tendency to build houses for the dead to resemble houses for the living . |
| 10 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 11 | How to find the money necessary to carry out Amnesty 's work has always been a worry , and from the very beginning the Section Office asked groups for help in this area . |
| 12 | Rowell , though , is hugely loyal to his Bath players and there has always been a worry that he would promote Bath men without due regard for the balance of the side , as Ron Waldron did with such disastrous results for Wales . |
| 13 | The idea that everyone in the country is wealthy has always been a myth . |
| 14 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 15 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 16 | It has always been a problem : the ghosts are n't laughing now . |
| 17 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 18 | How we seek to describe these attitudinal variables has always been a problem , and how they can be easily harnessed to the task of language learning has still to be adequately determined . |
| 19 | The relative success of right-wing organisations , compared with left-wing ones , in recruiting among lower-class youth culture has always been a problem for left idealism . |
| 20 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 21 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 22 | To coordinate the efforts of people working in different parts of the country with different languages has always been a problem , whilst the failure to do so has tended to result in an unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 23 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 24 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 25 | ‘ There has always been a problem , to a degree , of anti-social behaviour . |
| 26 | They are organizationally secular schools , though some clergy are members of the local governing committees and this has always been a feature . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |
| 29 | This crumbling of unity has always been a feature of philosophical systems , whether religious or political , or a combination of both . |
| 30 | This has always been a feature of political life , but has assumed new prominence since 1979 . |