Example sentences of "always [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 2 | Music has always been written for a purpose , be it a wedding , a funeral or a birth , and people have always been paid for it . |
| 3 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 4 | She turned from Schmidt and said , ‘ My husband … ’ then immediately turned back , as if unaware of the other car , making it seem that her remark had always been intended for Schmidt . |
| 5 | His bullying tactics had always been reserved for the weaker sex , Virginia guessed bitterly . |
| 6 | Those based east of the Meuse , in lands that had always been destined for Lothar , readily answered his summons to a great assembly at Ingelheim in August . |
| 7 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 8 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 9 | Martha has always been admired for her brilliant elegance , the epitome of good taste . |
| 10 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
| 11 | That has always been the case , we have always been criticised for doing it but I find it outstandingly noticeable this year . |
| 12 | The ability to link systems on either a local or wide area network has always been taken for granted in the world of engineering workstations . |
| 13 | His symbols were circles with different patterns inside them ; presumably circles because it had always been taken for granted that atoms were spheres . |
| 14 | Much more has always been claimed for it . |
| 15 | Music has always been written for a purpose , be it a wedding , a funeral or a birth , and people have always been paid for it . |
| 16 | Mexicans have always been known for heavy drinking because traditional forms of alcohol are cheap , peasants often making their own , and this is a classic way of forgetting the drudgery of poverty . |
| 17 | Originally bred as a draught animal , its milk has always been known for its quality ( if not quantity ) and it can fairly be called a dual-purpose breed . |
| 18 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 19 | Now notions in this sense have , of course , always been accounted for in conventional syllabus design . |