Example sentences of "have always [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She has always been rather possessive of him , except oddly enough as far as I 'm concerned . ’
2 The distribution of medical services has always been both unequal and inequitable .
3 Ethology has always been profoundly concerned with evolutionary development , with phylogeny .
4 This outlook has always been diametrically opposed to socialism , labourism , indeed , all that is still progressive in British politics .
5 The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs .
6 And as a consequence , it has always been prohibitively expensive .
7 It has always been pretty marginal . ’
8 But important realism has always been historically rare , the nineteenth century in Western Europe , the seventeenth century for a moment in Holland , ancient Rome , and what else ? — not much more . ’
9 The island has always been predominantly Roman Catholic , ever since the days of the first settlers , and it is still so today .
10 In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research .
11 then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view .
12 Britain has always been strongly opposed to nuclear proliferation .
13 Natural rain has always been slightly acidic — brought about by unavoidable causes like plant and animal respiration , organic decay , volcanic eruptions or lighting .
14 KENNETH CLARKE has always been disarmingly frank .
15 It has always been quite large-framed and long in the body .
16 The number wintering in the county has always been quite small , and the main concentrations are now found in Chichester Harbour , mainly in Chichester Channel at Fishbourne , and the head of Bosham Channel , Pagham Harbour ( since 1971 ) , and sometimes still in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes .
17 Even when they had first been married , Ross has always been quite determined that —
18 Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that .
19 The Ulster situation has always been quite different .
20 Purchased out of Tim Forster 's yard three years ago , Paylins has always been perfectly genuine , but his form has improved dramatically since trainer Neville King decided to equip him with blinkers .
21 UDC 's revision structure has always been essentially consultative .
22 The Foreign Office has always been deeply pro-Arab , or ‘ Arabist ’ , and remains so — a matter partly of culture and partly , perhaps , of guilt about the past failures of British policy in the region .
23 I never realised it until lately , but looking back I can see she has always been inordinately vain .
24 Mercury , whose network has always been fully digital , and BT , which has a digital trunk network and is busy digitising its exchanges , both offer ISDN connections .
25 Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible .
26 Adobe has always been highly protective of its source code , turning down deals rather than share it .
27 The discipline within anthropology which maintained the closest relation to material culture studies was archaeology , which has always been highly dependent upon such studies , since its task of resurrecting ancient societies is based in large measure on the interpretation of the material remains excavated from those societies .
28 Fine Arts Brass has always been actively involved in educational projects , and as well as coaching students , is involved in a nationwide series of schools concerts under the banner ‘ Legal and General Concert for Children ’ , which has recently bee expanded to include concerts in Schools for the deaf .
29 We will see how the development of Anglo-Saxon archaeology , in which the number of practitioners has always been relatively small , has engendered a conservative approach to the period which was not suited to answering the fundamental questions relating to human social evolution .
30 The speciality has always been genuinely private tuition , one-to-one coaching for anyone willing to pay ( £16 an hour at the end ) whether brilliant or hopeless .
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