Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University Art Gallery in the Portland Building has always been open to the public , but it was necessary to know one 's way around the campus to take advantage of this . |
| 2 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 3 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 4 | Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 . |
| 5 | Indeed Trible 's work has precisely been useful to women of conservative disposition who , accepting the text 's authority , need to interpret it as best they may . |
| 6 | THE ACOUSTIC of Birmingham Town Hall has never been kind to the mistier recesses of Debussy and Ravel . |
| 7 | Confidentiality is therefore not such a strong theme and the results of nursing audit have always been available to managers . |
| 8 | Teachers in the independent sector have long been used to doing this . |
| 9 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 10 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 11 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 12 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 13 | Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash , which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard . |
| 14 | This process had already been invaluable to industry and proved to be so for penicillin . |
| 15 | Economics has usually been subordinate to politics , and politics have generally been dominated by localism and authoritarianism , the latter being reflected in a view that ‘ big ’ government was best . |
| 16 | It would be churlish to suggest Lewis fights under a flag of convenience or that his status as world champion has only been able to be enjoyed by default . |
| 17 | To lie in bed wakeful had always been intolerable to him . |
| 18 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 19 | Owner-occupancy has probably been subject to less direct legislative activity than have the two other main tenures . |
| 20 | Police said the dog had always been protective to Clare 's father , a worker at Gosport Navy base . |
| 21 | Food hygiene and quality have always been important to McDonald 's . |
| 22 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 23 | The Don has always been kind to me and my opportunity for revenge came sooner , rather than later . |
| 24 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 25 | Technological developments in product design , manufacturing , distribution and retailing have also been essential to meeting these market developments . |
| 26 | Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic . |
| 27 | Animal welfare and health had always been important to the Danes , he said . |
| 28 | The commercial function had previously been subordinate to operations , and according to a manager involved , its philosophy was ‘ to sell what the operating departments produced ’ . |
| 29 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 30 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |