Example sentences of "have always be a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He remarks that in America especially there has always been a strong cross-racial homosexual attraction less restrained by social barriers than its heterosexual counterpart ; ‘ the very furtiveness and outlaw status of the gayworld has led to its greater integration across colour lines ’ .
2 Brooks has always been a strong influence in the stability market , evidenced by the long-term success of the Chariot .
3 The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris .
4 In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail .
5 For Labour the traditional family has always been a moral absolute and not at all a changing social relationship , statistics on single-parent families notwithstanding — not to mention ‘ pretended families ’ .
6 That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human .
7 The role of gold has always been a controversial issue in the international monetary system , but with the advent of floating its importance as a source of international liquidity has been reduced in several ways .
8 The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) .
9 However , military necessity has always been a dangerous principle when counterposed to the principle of humanitarian limitation of the means of warfare .
10 In fact Benitses has always been a rocking resort , and over the past couple of years has become even more exciting .
11 Accounting has always been a closed book to me . ’
12 I 've been to most European countries , but Albania has always been a closed country .
13 Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic .
14 As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists .
15 The pentatonic major scale is and has always been a pre-eminent part of the rock guitarist 's vocabulary .
16 The portfolio has always been a nervous holder of Pentos paper , and while the shares have been traded successfully over the years , no fortunes have been made .
17 To the compounders of explosives , ammonium nitrate has always been a useful cheap ‘ extender ’ for expensive nitro-organic explosives .
18 Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity .
19 In the later history of Marxism , the re-education of the peasantry and workers , along with the transformation of production processes , has always been a prime instrument in the securing of revolutionary goals ( Hinton 1972 ) .
20 ‘ This has always been a nice close .
21 There has always been a close correlation between the status of older people , and their personal achievement .
22 Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents .
23 fairclough has always been a good defender ( ex England U21 ) , but he s excellent when given a job , like marking Tony Daley out of the game .
24 In spite of being scheduled around the five o'clock timeslot , Doctor Who has always been a fully-fledged BBC Drama Series , made by the Drama Department in the same mould as Z Cars , Adam Adamant Lives , or , more recently , Blake 's 7 and All Creatures Great and Small .
25 Historically cleaning has always been a low status occupation .
26 Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad .
27 I think that , regrettably , there has always been a higher unemployment rate among people with disabilities than among the rest of the population .
28 For legendary country star Johnny Cash , America 's history has always been a rich source of material — and dressing up !
29 In the United States , what we now recognise as social psychology has always been a rich vein of thought .
30 ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer .
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