Example sentences of "[verb] always [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 2 | ‘ My theory has always been that working practices and the way that careers are structured are not really compatible with having a family as well . |
| 3 | There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru . |
| 4 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 5 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 7 | THERE has always been some doubt as to what exactly a cotinga is . |
| 8 | There has always been some awareness of this problem and the publication of simple informative magazines such as The Teacher in Uganda , has been regarded as one means of overcoming it . |
| 9 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 10 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 11 | According to Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade : ‘ It has always been this Government 's policy to put current services into the private sector where this makes sense . |
| 12 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 13 | Sculpting has always been more of a hobby . ’ |
| 14 | I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've always been such a good little girl . |
| 16 | You 've always been such a wonderful sister to me . |
| 17 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 18 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 19 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 20 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 21 | There had always been such spirit in her . |
| 22 | They had always been such an uncomplicated species before she had met Piers . |
| 23 | It had n't been easy to break into the tough world of radio news reporting , not with her fragile appearance , which had always been such a handicap . |
| 24 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 25 | Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life . |
| 26 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 27 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 28 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 30 | But it 's always been that way . |