Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nationalism in its crudest forms has always been the ally of the ruthless operator , irrespective of the context — political , sporting or cultural . |
| 3 | Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem . |
| 4 | In footplate LDCs , one of the main activities has traditionally been the ‘ scrutiny ’ of alterations to work programmes or ‘ diagrams ’ to ensure that they comply with agreements concerning continuous driving time , meal breaks , and so on . |
| 5 | PROVIDING musical settings for other people 's words has always been a handy option when one 's own muse is temporarily employed elsewhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Confiscating savings has long been a demand of the most reactionary groups who think that all private business is conducted by ‘ the mafia ’ , which the confiscation is supposed to hurt ( actually , the most criminalised businesses hold much of their savings in dollars and gold ) . |
| 8 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 9 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 10 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 11 | The first sessions had obviously been a useful learning experience for all concerned . |
| 12 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 13 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 14 | Dumped cars have also been an occasional problem . |
| 15 | My father owned garages , so cars have always been a big part of my life . ’ |
| 16 | You know … as I do … that the Prussians have always been the warmongers . |
| 17 | The spatial query language tools which a GIS uses for general interaction with spatial data and for the elucidation of spatial relationships have also been the subject of recent research ( Egenhofer 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Tiny banknotes have always been the most traditional item at the fair . |
| 19 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 20 | The contamination of clay bodies by minute metallic elements has long been a recurring nightmare for potters despite stringent efforts to eradicate the ‘ disease ’ . |
| 21 | The situation was different , because the Conservatives had then been the largest party , whereas they were now 26 seats behind the Labour Party . |
| 22 | My feet have never been the same since , he said . |
| 23 | Many of the old industrial communities have long been a desert for women 's employment . |
| 24 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
| 25 | Market saleswomen have always been the most aggressive because they get the roughest end of the stick . |
| 26 | Rovers have never been the same since they knocked Newcastle and Wimbledon out of the Centenary Trophy . |
| 27 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 28 | These criticisms have often been the crux of the public case against land drainage . |
| 29 | ‘ English ’ in American schools and universities has always been a cultural , not a progressive , intellectual subject . |
| 30 | By combining traditional craftsmanship with state of the art electronics , Yamaha 's APX range of electro-acoustic guitars has long been the professionals ' choice for performing and recording alike . |