Example sentences of "have always be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation .
2 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 .
3 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 ? ) .
4 Promiscuity has always been with us .
5 Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today .
6 ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon .
7 Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile .
8 The emphasis has always been on producing verifiable statements of income and expenditure , balance sheets and , latterly , cash flows .
9 Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration .
10 But then he has always been on top of the situation .
11 Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards .
12 Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking .
13 Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities .
14 Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise .
15 The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education .
18 This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent .
19 Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves !
20 My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better .
21 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 .
22 Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce .
23 Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy .
24 Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work .
25 The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up .
26 In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier .
27 The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account .
28 Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past .
29 The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company .
30 Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP .
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