Example sentences of "always been [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I 've always been bored with Dolores . ’ |
| 2 | Amal 's father , who had always been uncomfortable with daughters , was stricken by the event , but felt that the boys had done only what any male would do under the circumstances . |
| 3 | Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly . |
| 4 | He 's always been opposed to women in the church . |
| 5 | Have the creativity of art , music , literature and drama always been opposed to activities responding to patronage or markets ? |
| 6 | Slothfulness has always been rife amongst trainees , many of whom it has to be said would feel qualms about putting clients into shares they hear through the grapevine are dubious . |
| 7 | I 've always been hopeless at riddles . |
| 8 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 9 | The explanation given was that he had always been keen on guns . |
| 10 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 11 | Schools have always been involved in issues of resource management such as the allocation of capitation allowances . |
| 12 | Confidentiality is therefore not such a strong theme and the results of nursing audit have always been available to managers . |
| 13 | Even then , at twenty , she was beginning to look matronly , and of course be had always been good with animals . |
| 14 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 15 | In approaching these questions , he first argues that the criminal law has always been concerned with morals , or moral principles , and that these moral principles are , in this country , inextricably tied to religion — ‘ the moral standards generally accepted in western civilisation being those belonging to Christianity ’ . |
| 16 | Since 1980 , the economy , which has always been dependent on exports of a small range of agricultural products , especially coffee , has become highly dependent on US aid . |
| 17 | He 's always been fond of animals and spent much of his life working for their welfare . |
| 18 | I 've always been fond of animals and it interests me to have them about to look at . |
| 19 | I know it sounds nutty but I 've always been frightened of cranes . |
| 20 | I have always been interested in maps and looking for odd placenames on them . |
| 21 | Meanwhile my interest in the film industry through Hellen Semmens was not the only reason for becoming an active member of the Vancouver Film Society — I have always been interested in films for their own sake . |
| 22 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 23 | Companies operating in a competitive environment have always been interested in details of their competitors ' performance , and the operation of market forces ensures that those that fail to match their competitors also fail to survive . |
| 24 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 25 | He had always been sentimental about horses — too much so , according to his father . |
| 26 | Since the 1916 Rising in Dublin , the organization , which had always been prone to spies and informants , had grown very security conscious . |
| 27 | The Academy has always been suspicious of comedians , from Charlie Chaplin ( three nominations , no Oscars ) and Danny Kaye ( no nominations ) to Robin Williams ( two recent no-hope nominations , for Good Morning , Vietnam and Dead Poets Society ) . |
| 28 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 29 | manufactures have had some success in making less harmful products , but these have not always been popular with users |
| 30 | Henley has always been popular with visitors and societies , and in 1935 the British Racing Drivers ' Club came , arranged by Henley Member J.A . |