Example sentences of "always been a [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 2 | Thirty-five-year-old stockbroker Clive Sinclair-Poulton , bottom right , has always been a Metro owner but readily admits that the new GTi surpasses all its predecessors . |
| 3 | Denis Smith says he 's always been a Stoke fan and his name always comes into the reckoning when the job is going and he 's made no secret of the fact that he 'd like to manage the club |
| 4 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 5 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 6 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |