Example sentences of "always [been] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man 's unwanted waste . |
2 | My first choice had always been a pay review body and the significant breakthrough came when Geoffrey Howe and Leon Brittan at the Treasury also backed this proposal . |
3 | He 'd always been a dairy farmer , you see , like I am . |
4 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
5 | As far as can be ascertained , it has always been a corn mill , mainly grinding corn from local farms for local consumption and in later life , rolled oats for local farmers . |
6 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
7 | Macros have always been a core part of WordPerfect . |
8 | Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility . |
9 | Two-Dogs had not always been a whisky Navaho , and he had taught his son the stories his father had taught to him . |
10 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
11 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
12 | BOYS ' Brigade football has always been a breeding ground for talent and the proof will be on parade at Seaview on Tuesday night . |
13 | His career has always been a family affair . |
14 | Munich , the metropolis at the heart of Europe , has always been a meeting place for international experts and decision-makers . |
15 | From the time of the first Slav settlements in the seventh century until the Second World War Macedonia has always been a meeting place of contrasting cultures and a cockpit of rival political ambitions . |
16 | Elonex has always been a mail order supplier . |
17 | As a result there has always been a clan spirit which has kept the 600,000 first and second generation pied noirs together . |
18 | Yes , there 's always been a mandate workshop ? |
19 | No , there 's always been a mandate workshop , explaining why , you know , what our mandate is . |
20 | Otis Griffith , 21 , has always been a car fanatic , but when it comes to his own set of wheels , he admits he 's never had much luck . |
21 | At a point on the coast called Sand-le-Mere is a small area of dune which has always been a danger point from incursion from the sea . |
22 | They had always been a task force in their own right and had a head start in this respect with their trained crews specialising in interceptions at sea and rummage duties , traditional skills which could now be deployed more swiftly and utilised more efficiently by use of new radio equipment and position finding navigational aids such as radar and Decca Navigators . |
23 | I 've always been a d-i-y enthusiast , but it 's been more through lack of funds than genuine enthusiasm — not exactly a good basis for totally renovating a derelict house . |
24 | Last year congress carried a motion on racism and fascism expressing its alarm at the rise of fascism and racism in Germany and France this has always been a trade union issue . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
27 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
28 | ‘ I have n't always been a pleasure anorexic , whatever you think . ’ |
29 | Number 4 had not always been a lodging house ; just as several families , like the Titfords , were constantly on the move from place to place , so many an individual house or shop would see a very rapid turnover of occupants . |
30 | W.H.R chairman Al McNicol confirmed that it has always been the Company policy to rebuild to Dinas . |