Example sentences of "have always [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leg ulcers have always formed a large part of district nurses ' ( DNs ) caseloads . |
| 2 | ‘ I have always felt a strange affinity for that one . ’ |
| 3 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 4 | Desirable though they may be in special circumstances , I have always conducted a personal vendetta against glazed cabinets and patented bookcases with evil and malicious sliding and lifting glass panels . |
| 5 | Democratic socialists have always rejected a narrow conception of freedom and have fought for the ‘ positive freedoms ’ of wide access to education , health care , housing and employment . |
| 6 | It is based on a selected group of Arab states — although the non-Arab states in the region are potentially the most powerful and have always displayed a powerful awareness of their regional role . |
| 7 | Public sector pay and the unpredictability of pay settlements have always posed a major threat to public expenditure control . |
| 8 | Lou and I have always presented a good public face : we make a happily married couple , a busy professional pair ; she in the media — seen as a little suspect , a little too clever for her own good — he in the interpretive arts : sensitive , hard-working , dedicated : often away . |
| 9 | Industrialists , who have acquired power and influence without passing through the mollifying tunnel of public school , Oxbridge and the professions , have always represented a potential challenge to the old order . |
| 10 | She reckons the real reason the Japanese are so successful is that they have always incorporated a spiritual approach in business . |
| 11 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 12 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 13 | I have always believed a greater range of expressions are possible through representations of the real world . |
| 14 | We have always operated a non-racial policy here . |
| 15 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand anthropological topics , which have always had a major place in Marxism , are often just as difficult as Marxist writings to understand and evaluate for those with a more general interest . |
| 17 | They have always had a certain macho image and reasonable new prices have ensured that residual values are sensible . |
| 18 | After a period under a caretaker chairman , the board 's non-executive directors — who have always had a powerful voice within the company decided that the group needed a ‘ drastic , kill-or-cure remedy ’ under a new leader who would have the strength to develop a new strategic direction . |
| 19 | But the Scots have always had a deep-rooted sense of inferiority about the English : it was born out of the defeat of the '45 and the surrender of 1707 and , as Boswell and others had observed with chagrin and sometimes rage , the condescension and contempt of the English towards the Scots and their impossible tongue . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm very happy and I have always had a good relationship with the board . ’ |
| 22 | We have always had a middle range approach ( in Merton 's sense ) at — though we have always been weighted to social institutions and the applied end . |
| 23 | Some GE businesses , like aero-engines and plastics , have always had a global outlook . |
| 24 | Such an achievement depends upon two things for which the English have always had a special genius : a sense of place and a sense of compromise . |
| 25 | Anyway , Glasgow people have always had a natural ability to entertain others , if not themselves , and as early as 11 November 1699 , a certain John Smith , not related to the John Smith who is a regular guest at a major hotel in the city , received permission from the Town Council to teach dancing . |
| 26 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 27 | The limits of possibility at 29,078 feet have always had a peculiar appeal for British expeditions . |
| 28 | Universities have always had a considerable degree of financial autonomy , being funded ( apart from the Open University ) by central government on the recommendation of an independent body , now the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 29 | I HAVE always had a clear idea of what I hoped to achieve at certain points in my life , which has given me a sense of direction . |
| 30 | Historically , women have always had a bad deal . |