Example sentences of "always been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a fantasy , as he was himself , it had always been a fantasy , and perhaps it was better to keep it so . |
| 2 | The Renault Clio is this year 's European Car of the Year but the award has n't always been a guarantee of outstanding sales success . |
| 3 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 4 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | ‘ There has always been a welcome in the hillsides for Englishmen in love with the Welsh rhythms and landscape , just as many people from Wales found jobs and homes in the flourishing towns and cities of industrial and commercial England . |
| 6 | Though , doubtless , man has always been a jackdaw , a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles , the recognition of ephemera as a legitimate and respectable sphere of collecting is a comparatively modern phenomenon , its devotees now having their own Society and special sales organised by reputable auctioneers who not long ago would have looked down their noses at the trivia they are now , in the name of Mammon , glad to catalogue . |
| 7 | Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people . |
| 8 | St Mary 's had always been a home for Eve ; the fear was that she might find the sister house in Dublin more like an institution , and worse still she might find her own role-there not that of an honoured daughter , but more that of a maid . |
| 9 | Family responsibility to care for its members has become shared with health and education authorities , social security and social services to a greater extent than ever before , and there has always been a concern that the welfare state may undermine family ties and produce welfare dependency . |
| 10 | However , there had always been a doubt as to whether or not Rodrigo could stay the mile and a half at Epsom . |
| 11 | Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man 's unwanted waste . |
| 12 | But his fans have no doubt , he 's always been a hero to them , and it looks like he always will be . |
| 13 | The idea that everyone in the country is wealthy has always been a myth . |
| 14 | My first choice had always been a pay review body and the significant breakthrough came when Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan at the Treasury also backed this proposal . |
| 15 | How to find the money necessary to carry out Amnesty 's work has always been a worry , and from the very beginning the Section Office asked groups for help in this area . |
| 16 | Rowell , though , is hugely loyal to his Bath players and there has always been a worry that he would promote Bath men without due regard for the balance of the side , as Ron Waldron did with such disastrous results for Wales . |
| 17 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 18 | He 'd always been a dairy farmer , you see , like I am . |
| 19 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 20 | IN A country where government has not always been a friend , it is little wonder that society has sometimes turned to the authorities of the underworld . |
| 21 | The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise . |
| 22 | Moving breathing apparatus sets from the store in the laundry building at Hunterston A to Hunterston B and back again has always been a hassle in the past . |
| 23 | Mr Watkins , once a commander of a nuclear submarine , has always been a believer in nuclear power . |
| 24 | I 've always been a believer in fate , and that one shot can win or lose an Open . |
| 25 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 26 | They are organizationally secular schools , though some clergy are members of the local governing committees and this has always been a feature . |
| 27 | Of course , resort to technology has always been a feature of health care , if we mean by that the development and use of skills and tools . |
| 28 | Special tramway tours have always been a feature of the hobby , and the first was held at Blackpool by the Light Railway Transport League in 1938 . |
| 29 | Error and uncertainty have always been a feature of cartographic information . |
| 30 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |