Example sentences of "always [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My leanings had always been towards the listings and music and entertainment side . |
| 2 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 3 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 4 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 5 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 6 | I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused . |
| 7 | He knows we have always been of the view that given the limited resources that the best cost effective use of those resources would be to merge the administration . |
| 8 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 9 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 10 | The 1988 social security changes have always been on the agenda of the project and with the abolition of additional requirements and single payments , new sources of support must be found for the core families . |
| 11 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 12 | The focus has almost always been on the North Sea , although between 1965 and 1973 eight distant-water freezer trawlers belonging to Ranger Fisheries , a subsidiary of P and O , were based in the port . |
| 13 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 14 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 15 | Tealtaoich said , ‘ You have always been on the side of justice , Trees ; come with us and fight with us and for us , as you have done in the past . ’ |
| 16 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 17 | As far as I 've been told and remember , Dad 's always been on the boat , yeah . |
| 18 | The poets had always been on the side of the people . |
| 19 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 20 | Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking . |
| 21 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 22 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 23 | Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities . |
| 24 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 25 | But , if women 's bodies have always been at the forefront of discussions about painting and sculpture , it was women 's bodies seen and portrayed by men that were dominant . |
| 26 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
| 27 | This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent . |
| 28 | Although isotope studies have always been at the heart of the deep-mantle recycling hypothesis , previous analyses have focused on radiogenic isotope variations ( those that result from radioactive decay , such as the isotopic composition of Sr and Nd ) ; Woodhead et al . |
| 29 | The duty to manage has , under trust law , always been with the trustees . |
| 30 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |