Example sentences of "always been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking . |
| 2 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 3 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
| 4 | John had always been at his best at Christmas , gay , funny , sweet , considerate . |
| 5 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 6 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |
| 7 | He had liked her , respected her , had always been at ease in her company , but he had never thought that he really knew her , and now he never would . |
| 8 | Rationalists and moralists have always been at least a little uneasy about admitting that so much that they most value comes out of the vast area of human behaviour which shares the spontaneity of physical events . |
| 9 | Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities . |
| 10 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 11 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 12 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 13 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 14 | But , if women 's bodies have always been at the forefront of discussions about painting and sculpture , it was women 's bodies seen and portrayed by men that were dominant . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea has always been at Knightshayes to blend if it 's possible — up to a point you can do it — the garden you 're making into its setting . |
| 16 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
| 17 | Although there are particular occupational groups who have always been at risk , such as sewer workers , miners , farm workers and slaughterhouse workers , the working population and residents of the new London Dockland system could also be at risk . |
| 18 | This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent . |
| 19 | So I would think it 's just always been at that that site . |
| 20 | Certain trade union leaders have always been at risk in Colombia — a military state thinly disguised as a two-party democracy . |
| 21 | Although isotope studies have always been at the heart of the deep-mantle recycling hypothesis , previous analyses have focused on radiogenic isotope variations ( those that result from radioactive decay , such as the isotopic composition of Sr and Nd ) ; Woodhead et al . |
| 22 | He had always been at his best when he was pressed hardest . |