Example sentences of "have always been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is a quote from Al Deere , one of the most famous Battle of Britain pilots : Fate is a strange master and I have always been a fatalist , — he should be a fatalist he has baled out nine times in his air-lighting life . |
| 2 | Macros have always been a core part of WordPerfect . |
| 3 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
| 4 | Special tramway tours have always been a feature of the hobby , and the first was held at Blackpool by the Light Railway Transport League in 1938 . |
| 5 | Error and uncertainty have always been a feature of cartographic information . |
| 6 | Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man 's unwanted waste . |
| 7 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 8 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 9 | Mature students and those who do not receive the parental contribution towards their grant have always been a problem . |
| 10 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 11 | Such imaging centres have always been a part of the American scene , another reason why they are so much more advanced in their presentations technology than we are , but until very recently the only major European one was in Brussels . |
| 12 | The Conservatives , in contrast , have always been a party more accustomed to government and less interested in theories , but they have been equally class identified . |
| 13 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 14 | Clothes , she says , have always been a passion . |
| 15 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 16 | Chimaeras have always been a source of some horror . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you there have always been a lot of unanswered questions about Louis . |
| 18 | ‘ There have always been a lot of politicians at Oxford . |
| 19 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |