Example sentences of "always been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 2 | Geomorphological and Quaternary studies of the glacial history of the Grampian Highlands have always been major research interests within Scottish universities . |
| 3 | According to popular tradition , Constantine had always been tolerant , if not sympathetic , towards Christianity — an intrinsically ‘ good man ’ , even before he ‘ saw the light ’ definitively . |
| 4 | His nights out looking for girls had always been insecure , lonely operations . |
| 5 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 6 | He said afterwards that he had always been confident ‘ because I was not guilty ’ . |
| 7 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
| 8 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 9 | ‘ I have always been counter-cyclical , ’ says Moran , who made his first millions from aviation insurance in the late 1960s and backed the Boeing 747 when nobody else would . |
| 10 | Especially in secondary schools , teachers have always been subject to the constraints of this system , based on what their pupils need in the way of qualifications , as well as the more general considerations of what their pupils ought to know . |
| 11 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 12 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 13 | The objective of developing the cities , in both an economic and physical sense , has always been apparent within inner-urban policy . |
| 14 | Accounting for some of the new instruments has not always been uniform , and a variety of arguments have been advanced to justify differing treatments . |
| 15 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 16 | No one knows whether river dolphins were once more abundant or whether their numbers have always been low because of their restrictive and specialised habitat . |
| 17 | However , yields have always been low because of the climate . |
| 18 | ‘ This family has always been poor , but they were not slaves , ’ the old woman almost shouted , snatching back the photograph as if Martha 's impious fingers would stain it . |
| 19 | So I 've always been poor , and I have n't got any nice dresses ! |
| 20 | I 've always been poor — my husband died when I was 34 — and this man 's very well-off . |
| 21 | After they had completed all but the final revisions on the work , Harriet , whose health had always been poor , became extremely ill . |
| 22 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 23 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 24 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 25 | Mr Turnbull 's match reports have always been jaundiced and he could n't resist his usual helping of cynicism in his coverage of last weekend 's saga at St James 's Park . |
| 26 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 27 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 28 | He 's always been brilliant . |
| 29 | Because of the second world war , this never came to pass , but its generous boundaries have always been dear to the heart of Croatia 's president , Franjo Tudjman . |
| 30 | Sessions 's show endorses Petherbridge 's point as forcefully as possible , reminding us that , in 20th century drama , the big stars have always been bigger than the big roles . |