Example sentences of "always [been] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 4 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 5 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think it 's difficult to say that , but erm we feel that the British protection was very important for the erm sovereignty , for maintaining the external sovereignty of Kuwait , but our internal affairs has always been within the Kuwaiti community . |
| 8 | It is to be hoped that this satisfactory industrial position will be maintained after the War , for , unfortunately , in the past the deaf and dumb have always been amongst the first to be pushed to the wall in periods of depression . |
| 9 | The ten privatised water authorities have lifted their prices by just under 13% ; the 29 statutory water companies ( which have always been in the private sector and supply water , but not sewage services , to about a quarter of the population of England and Wales ) have increased theirs by over 15% . |
| 10 | His real interest had always been in the scientific aspects of his work . |
| 11 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 12 | The definition of the PostScript language has always been in the public domain and Adobe always anticipated that other companies would produce versions of it . |
| 13 | My clothes have always been in the same spirit as Madonna . |
| 14 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |