Example sentences of "always [been] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 2 | The Source — Building societies have always been the traditional source of mortgage finance , however , banks finance companies and specialist lenders have also moved into the market and now provide major competition to the building societies . |
| 3 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 4 | She had always been the great friend of Noreen 's and of Liam too in his young days . |
| 5 | One source of recruitment has always been the armed services , not only because their staff have already been security vetted , but also because they are used to carrying out dull repetitive chores and filling out the endless paperwork that forms the major part of any intelligence operation . |
| 6 | ‘ Participant observation ’ has always been the central method of ethnographers . |
| 7 | And this , of course , has always been the central dilemma and one that the critics of TNC practices in the Third World can not escape . |
| 8 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 9 | But in the folklore of Liverpool Police it was the ‘ bucks ’ who had always been the primary object of street powers . |
| 10 | GOLD HAS always been the ultimate store of value — and so it is proving here today . |
| 11 | A personal hate of mine has always been the general level of noise which distortion sounds seem to produce , no matter what precautions you take . |
| 12 | Of course , what applies to animals applies equally to people : indeed , it has always been the declared aim of the behaviourists to understand and to control human behaviour . |
| 13 | Lord Callaghan , the last Labour prime minister , said : ‘ What happened in the 1980s was a temporary aberration from what has always been the real position of the Labour Party , and Neil Kinnock has recaptured the traditional position . ’ |
| 14 | This has always been the leading point of contrast between written and spoken language , but with maximally informal conversation , the contrast becomes dramatic indeed . |
| 15 | Local authorities have always been the main providers of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing , and although the actual number of such dwellings decreased between the periods 1970/81 and 1982/6 due to an overall decline in their house-building programme , the percentage of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing increased in this period . |
| 16 | The presentation of issues and their translation into government policy has always been the blind spot of American parties . |
| 17 | The reader is reminded that according to the reasoning of this book , the ‘ events ’ have always been the direct result of the satisfying of ‘ desire ’ , the existence of which is the basic presumption relegated to pre-life and therefore having no direct relevance to the Created God . |
| 18 | Jewellery has always been the Arabian woman 's cash box . |
| 19 | In Molly 's own words : ‘ Thinking back to these early classes , I realise that it has always been the enthusiastic response of the class members that has made it seem supremely worth while to go on … |
| 20 | Staveley GC shed had always been the local dumping ground for withdrawn and stored locos from the Sheffield area . |
| 21 | ‘ Plus , ’ said Jack , ‘ the lyric has always been the natural medium for the untrammelled expression of feeling . |
| 22 | Youth has always been the ideological sign of pleasure because it is a time of irresponsibility , possibility , change ; young people are envied and feared and so feature in the organization of consumption as a recurring adult fantasy . |
| 23 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 24 | I represent the principle of authority and am bound to make it respected in my person : such has always been the conscious object of my relations with the working class . ’ |
| 25 | That after all has always been the federalist hope . |