Example sentences of "have always been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sydney and Brisbane have always been strong rugby cities but Perth 's astonishing ratings figures have delighted the ARFU .
2 There have always been creepy-crawly stories , which are part of learning that life is not all teddy bears and roses .
3 Geomorphological and Quaternary studies of the glacial history of the Grampian Highlands have always been major research interests within Scottish universities .
4 ‘ There are- ’ Carolyn hesitated ’ — there have always been external dangers , anyway .
5 He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge .
6 There have always been good maths teachers who 've made maths interesting and relevant to the children , but I think perhaps the emphasis has shifted from rote learning to helping children to understand what they 're doing .
7 ‘ Len and I have always been good mates .
8 Taylor said : ‘ The FA have always been good employers to all the previous managers who have suffered as I am suffering the kind of criticism that is about .
9 Anyway , my father and his theatrical consortium have always been great fans of Trumpton .
10 Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets .
11 We have always been such witnesses and such representatives . ’
12 But there have always been other considerations .
13 There have always been small groups of people who have predicted the end of the world on some seemingly significant date ( like the year 1000 ) and sold their possessions to sit on a mountain top .
14 With young players of the calibre of Phil O'Donnell , Motherwell have always been unlikely candidates for the drop .
15 They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren .
16 Historically we can establish that there have always been these waves of hooliganism in particular form .
17 DRAGONS , like unicorns , have always been elusive features .
18 The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision .
19 The type of front-line workers who are generally regarded as paraprofessionals have always been important participants in social service activities throughout the world .
20 For example , there have always been high rates of divorce after wars , but in the 1960s divorce was made easier and simpler by legal changes .
21 Since the early days of management development in the NHS , in the 1960s , there have always been valuable initiatives at the centre and in localities .
22 In the US these have always been private-sector firms , but subject to regulation .
23 While more women than men have always been active members of the church , at the present time , this situation has been accentuated :
24 There have always been considerable fluctuations between winter and summer services : before the War the daily winter turnout was an average of fifty trams .
25 Brenda Baxter , chairwoman of the National Association of Theatre Nurses , said : ‘ There have always been unfilled vacancies in this speciality .
26 There have always been some students in serious difficulties .
27 I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow .
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