Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] always been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The few reported cases that have come to autopsy have generally shown bilateral cerebral lesions but the right sided damage has always been in the region of the occipito-temporal junction whereas the lesions on the left have not been uniformly located ( Benson , Segarra and Albert , 1974 ; Meadows , 1974 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) .
2 ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes .
3 The strength of this Division has always been in the determination and ability of the people working within it .
4 Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards .
5 Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today .
6 US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation .
7 Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce .
8 The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company .
9 To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community .
10 ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon .
11 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 !
12 My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them .
13 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 .
14 The emphasis has always been on producing verifiable statements of income and expenditure , balance sheets and , latterly , cash flows .
15 Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking .
16 But when I recall her attitude over this house I ca n't help wondering if that hardness has always been in her , and I was too dumb to see it . ’
17 The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open .
18 It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market .
19 From start to finish quality control has always been to the fore at Guinness Dublin where the company has had its own laboratories for over a century .
20 This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent .
21 ‘ My style has always been to be analytical , ’ says the man who gained a double first in maths at King 's College , Cambridge .
22 In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier .
23 My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better .
24 Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities .
25 Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration .
26 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 .
27 The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science .
28 Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP .
29 Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise .
30 Adventure and challenge has always been in me .
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