Example sentences of "always [been] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team .
2 Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations .
3 It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters .
4 I 've always been grateful for that , that they did you know create th th this love of poetry .
5 It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation .
6 However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ?
7 Looking back , it 's clear that Cave has always been obsessed with this latent other within each individual , that can be catalysed by an extreme predicament .
8 I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me .
9 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
10 You 've always been good at that . ’
11 New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin .
12 Having always been sceptical of such high figures for repairs being bandied about , we commissioned our own structural survey which , more reassuringly , estimated the cost of urgent repairs to be £250,000 .
13 He and Franca had always been fond of each other .
14 ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’
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