Example sentences of "always [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
2 | It is therefore most unlikely that present-day stigmatized forms have always been stigmatized , or that present-day elite forms have always been elite . |
3 | Australian Chardonnay has become so popular they have been suffering shortages , but there has always been loads of Semillon available . |
4 | There have always been movements of people across the world who have changed the way of life in the lands they have occupied . |
5 | There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon . |
6 | ‘ Soap is soap , has always been soap . |
7 | The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers . |
8 | His main responsibility had always been intelligence work abroad , often a conflict with the Abwehr , although his personal relationship with Canaris was excellent . |
9 | There have always been wars . |
10 | ‘ Dana and I have always been photocopies , ’ Claudia said wearily . |
11 | Within Christianity there have always been strands , such as the Templars , Cathars and Rosicrucians , that have retained an awareness of the old secrets . |
12 | There 's always been land . |
13 | In microchip territory , silicon has always been king because it remains so cheap and easy to use . |
14 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
15 | ‘ There has always been honesty and integrity in my performance . |
16 | Kate 's day out had always been Nicandra 's day for experiments made to please , and sometimes to displease , Andrew . |
17 | However , there have always been leases without rent ( for example , mortgages ) and the statutory definition of a term of years absolute is clear on this point : |
18 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
19 | That summary of early Texan history is included , not just for general interest , but to illustrate several factors which have always been characteristic of Texan culture , and so have influenced the history of prisons in the state . |
20 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
21 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
22 | This has always been part of the role , but it has not often been done well . |
23 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |
24 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
25 | The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school . |
26 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
27 | But tampering with lifetime employment policies , and pushing unemployment upwards , is likely to affect the morale of a workforce that has always been Japan 's most valuable asset . |
28 | Although Ross was still obviously the same hard , unshakeable man who 'd always been master of his own emotions , it did seem to Laura that he was now acting in an oddly constrained manner . |
29 | Women have always been farmers . |
30 | Rivers have always been boundaries , as well as route-ways . |