Example sentences of "had always been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 2 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 3 | There had always been such spirit in her . |
| 4 | Like many small corps iii poor areas , there had always been financial problems , but this was nothing new to Major and Mrs Burrows . |
| 5 | A small , elegant building , it had been constructed in the last century by the Sanvitale family , who had always been passionate lovers of music and theatre . |
| 6 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 7 | They had always been careful hands , and she sensed an extra reverence in them now . |
| 8 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 9 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 10 | The dinners had always been all-male affairs , with formal suits and speeches , and long continued to be . |