Example sentences of "have always [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feminized male has always been suspect , be he the advocate of unisex , androgyny , or , now , the play of the post-modern . |
| 2 | And although the ANC has promised to share power in the subsequent government , the country will then be a short hop from the full-blown majority rule that has always been anathema to many Afrikaners . |
| 3 | A major worry for patients in psychiatric hospitals has always been money and access to it . |
| 4 | The message of the Burgess shale — that there has always been variety , and no one can say in what forms it will survive until it has done so — remains . |
| 5 | In microchip territory , silicon has always been king because it remains so cheap and easy to use . |
| 6 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 7 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 8 | ‘ There has always been honesty and integrity in my performance . |
| 9 | There has always been nervousness , and there still is , among audit partners about pro-active search work . |
| 10 | An important ingredient in the life of every local community has always been pride in the local hospital or school . |
| 11 | Our anchor has always been faith and family . |
| 12 | The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers . |
| 13 | There has always been criticism , much of it unjust , that lecturers in colleges and polytechnics fail to keep in touch with school-based initiatives and developments and that college programmes are all too often divorced from the real world of school . |
| 14 | ‘ Soap is soap , has always been soap . |
| 15 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
| 16 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
| 17 | This has always been part of the role , but it has not often been done well . |
| 18 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |
| 19 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 20 | The primary energy source of industrialised countries has always been fossil fuels . |
| 21 | In her arguments with John James over powers allocated to her design group she wrote , also in a telex : ‘ This company has always been design dominated , ’ and then bolstered her argument by adding ‘ see memos from BA leaving no doubt whatsoever . ’ |
| 22 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 23 | While the Three Pillars have stood the test of time , there has always been controversy about their relative importance , and hence about the allocation of resources between them . |
| 24 | Rock — whose currency has always been controversy and youthful rebellion — and bands have continually dallied with the flag for political , ironic and purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 25 | But the real-balance effect may also operate on a wider array of assets which constitute the net worth of the private sector , though there has always been controversy over the range of assets to which it is supposed to apply . |
| 26 | Fourth Estate , £14.99 THE first fascination of studying history comes from seeing how similar the past is to the present : politics has always been politics , religion has always been religion , and so on . |
| 27 | There has always been hostility in the UK to the cook-book approach to accounting standards . |
| 28 | Fourth Estate , £14.99 THE first fascination of studying history comes from seeing how similar the past is to the present : politics has always been politics , religion has always been religion , and so on . |
| 29 | Diana 's principal love has always been ballet . |
| 30 | Although Ross was still obviously the same hard , unshakeable man who 'd always been master of his own emotions , it did seem to Laura that he was now acting in an oddly constrained manner . |