Example sentences of "[noun prp] have always been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Port of Larne has always been in the forefront of development and modernisation . |
| 2 | Bach has always been among my major loves . |
| 3 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 4 | While she had been a slave to her newly awakened senses , Travis had always been in control . |
| 5 | " The Madam always loved her children , " Nuala said , remembering how proud Katherine had always been of them . |
| 6 | Mick had always been like a man to her . |
| 7 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 8 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 9 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 10 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 11 | Traditionally , Paris had always been in economic terms artisanal ; the average manufactory employed no more than three or four people , usually engaged in the long-established trades of furniture making or of printing , and factory industry was a rarity . |
| 12 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 13 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
| 14 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |
| 15 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment , and age has done very little to cure her . |
| 16 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment |
| 17 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 18 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 19 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 20 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 21 | Reid has always been like a terrier chasing a bone on the pitch — opponents never get a moment 's peace . |
| 22 | John had always been at his best at Christmas , gay , funny , sweet , considerate . |