Example sentences of "always been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 2 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 3 | My leanings had always been towards the listings and music and entertainment side . |
| 4 | My position on the Jews has always been without ambiguity . |
| 5 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 6 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 7 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 8 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
| 10 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 11 | In particular , Almond questions the notion of autonomy as it has been developed since Kant , arguing that this notion is of limited value to women , since ‘ the ‘ masculine ’ goal of moral autonomy has in practice almost always been outside a woman 's grasp' . |
| 12 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 13 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 14 | US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation . |
| 15 | Really , it 's what Blaze have always been about : we want to see every nationality come together on a peaceful level . |
| 16 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 17 | We could have a ‘ What Is Art ? ’ debate if people want it , but pop and rock music , and the role of the guitar playing in them , have always been about preferences , not art . |
| 18 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 19 | Tory Governments have always been about creating a two-tier educational system . |
| 20 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 21 | Every time Billy come around it 's always been about Billy ? |
| 22 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 23 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 24 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 25 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 26 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 27 | " The Madam always loved her children , " Nuala said , remembering how proud Katherine had always been of them . |
| 28 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 29 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 30 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |