Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] always been [adj] " 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 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
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| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 6 | Although precious substances have done much to dignify and enrich the lives of individuals , their prime function has always been social . |
| 7 | IN football parlance ‘ doing the business ’ on the field has always been important in the game . |
| 8 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 9 | The precise nature of the relations between adult education institutions and organised labour has always been problematic , and usually unsatisfactory , but that there should be a close and organic relationship was never questioned by adult educators who saw their work as part of a broader movement towards social emancipation and change . |
| 10 | Slothfulness has always been rife amongst trainees , many of whom it has to be said would feel qualms about putting clients into shares they hear through the grapevine are dubious . |
| 11 | It is a notion which professional football has always been happy to promote . |
| 12 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 13 | These lakes have never been landlord lakes — the fishing has always been free for the people . |
| 14 | Cotton wool has always been useful for cleaning and washing babies , but it 's never been particularly convenient — until now . |
| 15 | My future has always been uncertain but family and children need security . |
| 16 | ‘ Our overriding aim of all of us with the rest of the LUF has always been local provision of a self-contained stand-alone unit specifically for leukaemia and other haematology patients , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Our approach to accounting has always been one of a a truly integrated nature , and that approach fits like a hand in a glove with relational database technology . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 19 | ( The demand for universal male suffrage had always been high on the agenda of all the continental labour movements . ) |
| 20 | The department had always been able to prosecute unhygienic premises it was just a question of finding them . |
| 21 | Some old people living alone , who are very frail , are unable to expend all the energy required to take a bath or shower unattended every day , and if their standards of personal hygiene have always been good this can be a real worry to them . |
| 22 | Myrtle has always been interested in sport and gymnastics and first started Medau work eighteen years ago . |
| 23 | Everybody were working on it and everybody was working a g a g a good days work and hard cos slate quarry work has always been hard anyway . |
| 24 | Humanitarianism has always been one of the major motivations making for socialism . |
| 25 | In approaching these questions , he first argues that the criminal law has always been concerned with morals , or moral principles , and that these moral principles are , in this country , inextricably tied to religion — ‘ the moral standards generally accepted in western civilisation being those belonging to Christianity ’ . |
| 26 | Given that it is the crucial phrase , it is perhaps surprising that the definition of breach of the peace has always been vague . |
| 27 | WHO TO WATCH While the best that chart music can manage in the way of band names is Black Box , the pub circuit has always been ripe with imaginative handles . |
| 28 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 29 | This will have to be reviewed in the light of these new ‘ rules ’ but the advent of new rules does not fundamentally change the principles of effective decision-making : open decision-making has always been possible and will continue to be possible even under LMS . |
| 30 | Bray has always been proud of its association with Dargan and the weekend seminar which has been organised by the Council is an attempt to honour this great man and it is hoped that it will become an annual event . |