Example sentences of "[verb] always [been] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 2 | The conspiracy theory has always been used to explain away unpopular defeats at the hands of France 's Anglo-Saxon neighbours . |
| 3 | Let us pass the word along and come together to fight in the only way left open to us — the way the church has always been meant to fight — behind enemy lines . |
| 4 | This is not the fault of the dog as up to this point in its life it has always been encouraged to run and chase a similar ‘ creature ’ the lure at the track . |
| 5 | I 've always been fascinated working in Japan , because you do n't take any parts , that erm they would just argue it out until somebody says well this is what we should do and everyone says ‘ Yes , that 's right , that 's what we should do ’ you see , so that erm there are all sorts of ways of doing this . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , they 've always been pushed to explain why an omnipotent God permits Evil … ’ |
| 7 | In Por Tanssie , the vibrancers had always been instructed to keep a certain distance between them . |
| 8 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 9 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 10 | I was interested last year to see Tim Jonke 's article and his method of spraying acrylic paint over oil paint , as I had always been led to believe that acrylic would no take on top of oil paint . |
| 11 | On 3 October 1838 , Charles Darwin wrote in his N notebook that ‘ to study Metaphysics , as they have always been studied appears to me to be like puzzling at astronomy without mechanics … |
| 12 | I have always been led to believe that we must pay due regard to a Bill 's title . |
| 13 | And because of this , I have always been determined to do the contrary . |
| 14 | In Britain , ever since the foundation of the grammar schools in the middle ages , schools have always been thought to have the function of bringing disadvantaged children up to the level of those whose homes are more educative and cultured . |
| 15 | Our teachers have always been encouraged to develop their own personal style of teaching , whichever area they wish to work in , but this has never meant compromising the ideals and basics to which we all adhere . |
| 16 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 17 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 18 | Hunt supporters have always been advised to exercise restraint . |