Example sentences of "have always [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 2 | Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past . |
| 3 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 4 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 5 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 6 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 7 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 8 | The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company . |
| 9 | Much of the activity on the Tyne Tunnel Estate has always been in small warehousing and distribution depots but the two large manufacturing employers are Cape Insulation and Twinings Teas ( a subsidiary of Associated British Foods ) . |
| 10 | Although Maurice was not a Romanist nor an archaeologist — his interest has always been in medieval and later houses — he had set up a training school at Lincoln with Philip Corder as director . |
| 11 | However , money for adult education in general has always been in short supply — as the 1973 Russell Report pointed out , only just over 1 per cent of LEA expenditure was devoted to it — and art education is no exception to the general rule . |
| 12 | It has always been like that . |
| 13 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |
| 14 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 15 | He has always been like this . |
| 16 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 17 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
| 19 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
| 20 | I 've always been like that . |
| 21 | I 've always been like that . |
| 22 | I 've always been like that . |
| 23 | I 've always been like that . |
| 24 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 25 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 26 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 27 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 28 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 29 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 30 | 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 . |