Example sentences of "there [verb] always been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru .
2 Whenever Labour has lost office there has always been strong pressure within the party to press for more extreme policies .
3 Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures .
4 There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name .
5 There has always been considerable social stigma attached to the venereal diseases , probably more so in the country than the town .
6 Mr James said : ‘ There has always been numerous safety management regulations in engineering but until now the administration side of the business has largely been ignored .
7 There has always been bad blood between these families but now they are like two stiff-legged hunting-hounds who circle each other with hackles raised and teeth bared , carefully eyeing each other , ready to launch into war if any move is made by their rival .
8 There has always been intense rivalry between New Zealand and Big Brother Australia .
9 There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two .
10 THERE has always been some doubt as to what exactly a cotinga is .
11 There has always been some awareness of this problem and the publication of simple informative magazines such as The Teacher in Uganda , has been regarded as one means of overcoming it .
12 That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization .
13 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
14 There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve .
15 Like many small corps iii poor areas , there had always been financial problems , but this was nothing new to Major and Mrs Burrows .
16 There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other .
17 There had always been such spirit in her .
18 They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came .
19 There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently .
20 Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life .
21 There have always been small groups of people who have predicted the end of the world on some seemingly significant date ( like the year 1000 ) and sold their possessions to sit on a mountain top .
22 There have always been good maths teachers who 've made maths interesting and relevant to the children , but I think perhaps the emphasis has shifted from rote learning to helping children to understand what they 're doing .
23 But there have always been other considerations .
24 ‘ There are- ’ Carolyn hesitated ’ — there have always been external dangers , anyway .
25 There have always been creepy-crawly stories , which are part of learning that life is not all teddy bears and roses .
26 There have always been considerable fluctuations between winter and summer services : before the War the daily winter turnout was an average of fifty trams .
27 Brenda Baxter , chairwoman of the National Association of Theatre Nurses , said : ‘ There have always been unfilled vacancies in this speciality .
28 There have always been some old people who were influential and highly regarded , in contrast to the many others who were treated with ridicule , antagonism , or at best patronized as dependents .
29 There have always been some students in serious difficulties .
30 I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow .
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