Example sentences of "have always been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |
| 2 | It has always been made clear that the Government 's reforms are not to be introduced at the expense of patient and client care . |
| 3 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 4 | The Research Programme has always been considered vital at Henley as a means of training people for academic appointments . |
| 5 | The criteria for surgical intervention are uncertain , and the decision to operate has always been considered difficult in view of the high rate of spontaneous resolution . |
| 6 | Because I 'd always been called skinny . |
| 7 | What do you mean love , we 've always been left alone to get |
| 8 | ‘ Like Richard , ’ he said , ‘ I 've always been considered precocious too . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The Prophet ’ had always been made welcome at Priesthill and Isabel assured him that nothing would change ; their door would be open to him at all times . |
| 10 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 11 | These had always been kept closed , trussed-up , gingerly moved , kept out of the way lest they offend . |
| 12 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 13 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 14 | Climbing walls in the past have always been given short change from sports centres and the Sports Council . |
| 15 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |