Example sentences of "always [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 2 | These had always been kept closed , trussed-up , gingerly moved , kept out of the way lest they offend . |
| 3 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
| 4 | ‘ The Prophet ’ had always been made welcome at Priesthill and Isabel assured him that nothing would change ; their door would be open to him at all times . |
| 5 | It has always been made clear that the Government 's reforms are not to be introduced at the expense of patient and client care . |
| 6 | They have not always been given appropriate educational and library support . |
| 7 | Climbing walls in the past have always been given short change from sports centres and the Sports Council . |
| 8 | gold has always been given special status by most civilisations and is therefore widely accepted ; |
| 9 | Because I 'd always been called skinny . |
| 10 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 11 | What do you mean love , we 've always been left alone to get |
| 12 | ‘ Like Richard , ’ he said , ‘ I 've always been considered precocious too . ’ |
| 13 | The Research Programme has always been considered vital at Henley as a means of training people for academic appointments . |
| 14 | The criteria for surgical intervention are uncertain , and the decision to operate has always been considered difficult in view of the high rate of spontaneous resolution . |
| 15 | It must always be kept dry but washed in warm soapy water every two weeks . |
| 16 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 17 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 18 | The classical economists argued that , given a flexible rate of interest and a competitive market for loanable funds , saving and investment would always be made equal by changes in interest rates . |
| 19 | Phonological choices form a distinct level of style in oral literature , and in written literature the implicit sound pattern can always be made explicit in reading aloud . |
| 20 | For lists , the ‘ do n't know ’ category must always be made available . |
| 21 | Also the degree to which the firm is associated with any financial information or other data conveyed to the potential purchaser relating to the client should always be made clear in the information memorandum itself , in any subsequent information provided and in any transmittal letter sent with the information . |
| 22 | They can not be ignored , but should always be given low weight compared with other terms in the search . |
| 23 | Whatever their condition , they should always be given appropriate loving care . |
| 24 | The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study , and always be given high priority . |
| 25 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 26 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 27 | The island is safe , with good vantage points , but nevertheless special care must always be taken near to the edge of sheer cliffs . |