Example sentences of "always [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 2 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | The objective of developing the cities , in both an economic and physical sense , has always been apparent within inner-urban policy . |
| 4 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 5 | Investigations of a hereditary or hard-core social problem group have always been crucial in conservative social reformist strategies . |
| 6 | We have always been successful with branded sales in Norway and success is now being achieved in Spain and Belgium . |
| 7 | Michael Edwards , taking a paradoxical approach , has argued that the English have always been strong on literary theory , instancing a distinguished succession of poet-critics : Sidney , Dryden , Johnson , Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , Arnold , Eliot . |
| 8 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 9 | WHO TO WATCH While the best that chart music can manage in the way of band names is Black Box , the pub circuit has always been ripe with imaginative handles . |
| 10 | I have always been nervous of dying , but not of death . |
| 11 | Great-Aunt Alicia had always been susceptible to good-looking men , Sara reflected , and then had to admit to herself , but never feeble-minded about them . |
| 12 | A U-boat captain of distinction in the First World War , he had headed the Abwehr since 1935 and despite being a loyal German had always been unhappy with National Socialism . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 14 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 15 | You 've always been dependent on other people , being impressed with what you 've done , or the , before you 've got any pay rises . |
| 16 | What has always been true of secondary schools is now becoming true of primary schools also , and one of the main vehicles for that change is the Education Reform Act . |
| 17 | I have always been interested in musical declamation . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I had always been interested in flying kites ever since I was young , so when someone offered me one for sale , I jumped at the chance , ’ added , whose wife has also become hooked on the sport . |
| 20 | They point out that whereas merchants had always been welcome at royal courts as vendors of precious things , in the eighth century , and increasingly in the ninth and tenth centuries , kings embarked on more ambitious attempts to exploit systematically the resources of their realms . |
| 21 | Conversely , men of letters have always been ready for exciting literary discoveries . |
| 22 | It has always been popular with Middlesbrough-born singer-songwriter Chris Rea . |
| 23 | Situated right in the centre of the village this hotel has always been popular with British holidaymakers . |
| 24 | Calendars and diaries have always been popular in good bookshops , many of these products spinning off from familiar sources ( Tolkien , Beatrix Potter ) and sold in by book publishers with the autumn lists . |
| 25 | The PUK had not always been devoid of outside help , having at one stage been supported by Syria before entering into negotiations with Baghdad in 1984 for a new deal for Iraqi Kurds to improve on the Autonomous Region status conceded them under a mosaic of earlier legislation . |
| 26 | In achieving this remarkable success , Roddick has always been scornful of traditional business credos . |
| 27 | Uniforms have always been attractive to certain women , and the flame-retardant overalls have become pretty much a uniform . |