Example sentences of "[verb] always be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation . |
| 2 | 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 ? ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon . |
| 5 | But then he has always been on top of the situation . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 8 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 9 | My position on the Jews has always been without ambiguity . |
| 10 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
| 11 | the Unionist party … has always been in favour of : |
| 12 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |
| 13 | The RSPCA has always been in favour of whips being carried for the reasons outlined by Luhnenschloss , but its assistant chief veterinary officer , Alastair Mews , said : ‘ Future decisions can no longer be left to tradition , habit , or hearsay but must be based on good science . |
| 14 | a concept which has always been in complicity with a teleological and eschatological metaphysics , in other words , paradoxically , in complicity with that philosophy of presence to which it was believed history could be opposed . |
| 15 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment , and age has done very little to cure her . |
| 16 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment |
| 17 | This may be the point to take off and realise a long-planned dream — moving to the country if home has always been in town or vice versa . |
| 18 | The Salvation Army was established in the town in 1881 by Captain and Mrs Preston and has always been in Edward Street . |
| 19 | The Attorney General of the day ( one Shawcross ) , informed an inquiring MP that ‘ it is not contemplated that any legislation will be necessary to give effect to the terms of this Convention ’ because ‘ I think we are entitled to say that the law of this country has always been in advance of the laws of most other countries in regard to human rights ’ . |
| 20 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 21 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 22 | However for many academics , particularly in the areas of industrial sociology and industrial relations , the focus on labour flexibility was seen as an excuse by management to blame the workforce for the problems endemic in British manufacturing , Sweeping generalisations about the degree to which the British workforce had accepted changes and become more flexible were found questionable and often dismissed as being exaggerated or as having always been in existence . |
| 23 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 24 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've always been around dope . |
| 26 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 27 | I 've always been in trouble … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |