Example sentences of "have [adv] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have always been a close family although there are 12,000 miles between us . |
| 32 | It is perhaps surprising that plant tissues contain substances which affect animals , but plants have always been a useful source of drugs , and indigenous remedies from all parts of the world were studied when research interests expanded after 1945 . |
| 33 | We have always been a happy family . |
| 34 | The English have always been a little lighter on their feet , a little more amateurish , but the thing that has been happening , I think , is without a doubt the relativization of religion . |
| 35 | ‘ We have always been a class-dominated nation , and we remain divisive with unacceptable inequalities and disadvantages for many families . |
| 36 | My father owned garages , so cars have always been a big part of my life . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ You have always been a careful tenant in the garage . |
| 38 | I have always been a quick reader and my capacity , not to say my voracity , was generally admired . |
| 39 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 40 | Horses have always been an expensive pastime but in the current economic situation any chance to save a few pennies is more welcome than ever . |
| 41 | ‘ I sleep perfectly , I have always been an untroubled sleeper . |
| 42 | The Source — Building societies have always been the traditional source of mortgage finance , however , banks finance companies and specialist lenders have also moved into the market and now provide major competition to the building societies . |
| 43 | ‘ In England we had Morris dancing , mostly knee down , and our ballet dancers have always been the best for quick , precise footwork . |
| 44 | Gilbert , smiling , interjects : ‘ Artists have always been the biggest fuckers , no ? |
| 45 | You have always been the same , never do what you were … ’ |
| 46 | The reader is reminded that according to the reasoning of this book , the ‘ events ’ have always been the direct result of the satisfying of ‘ desire ’ , the existence of which is the basic presumption relegated to pre-life and therefore having no direct relevance to the Created God . |
| 47 | Local authorities have always been the main providers of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing , and although the actual number of such dwellings decreased between the periods 1970/81 and 1982/6 due to an overall decline in their house-building programme , the percentage of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing increased in this period . |
| 48 | In recent decades the most important factors have probably been the increasing number of home owners and rises in house prices . |
| 49 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |
| 50 | Two- and three-year-old fish are too large most birds , but have traditionally been an important part of the diet of the Shetland people . |
| 51 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 52 | There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships . |
| 53 | Middle-aged women working in the West German government have also been a favourite target for East German spies and several have passed over supposedly valuable information for a number of years before being caught . |
| 54 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 55 | Dumped cars have also been an occasional problem . |
| 56 | Yet these have also been the first two years of the Making Belfast Work programme , which if we are to believe the glossies , is the answer to structural unemployment of over one third of the workforce in West Belfast , using even the government 's definition of being unemployed . |
| 57 | More recently , profitable crops have often been a greater consideration than improving the taste of the apple . |
| 58 | Naylor ( 1987 ) tells some hair-raising tales of how politicians have often been the chief culprits , stashing away government revenues and foreign aid funds in numbered accounts . |
| 59 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 60 | But following your argument that would indicate that the image we have now is a concocted one made up by the press to a large extent . |