Example sentences of "[noun] have always maintained " in BNC.

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1 The Croats have always maintained that they were never legally part of Hungary .
2 Colleagues of Gilbey have always maintained that his relationship with the princess is strictly platonic .
3 There is a seat by our place which Council have always maintained .
4 The boat will be launched early next year , but I must maintain the position that I and my predecessors have always maintained — that we do not disclose any further details in the House .
5 But Marc 's parents the Rev Michael Jeffrey and his wife Anne have always maintained that their son was probably murdered .
6 To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church .
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