Example sentences of "[pron] has not always been " in BNC.

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1 The paper is much more tentative because some of it is based on evidence which has not always been gathered from studies designed specifically to elicit people 's conceptions in the mind .
2 Teamwork is paramount in any sphere of operation but something which has not always been evident in the past .
3 Even so , it is important to examine why there has not always been agreement on the value of reminiscence , and to place the value of reminiscence within the counselling process into perspective .
4 In times of hardship , as in the depression in the 1920 's and 30 's and rationing during the 1940 's and 50's , there has not always been a great choice of food .
5 McWilliams is one of the most talented jump jockeys in the land but he has not always been flavour of the month and that 's a pity .
6 It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters .
7 Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy .
8 It has not always been obvious that the natural way to classify animals was hierarchical .
9 Yet it has not always been so : the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder .
10 Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow .
11 But it has not always been so , and there are occasions when the perennial justification of the over-riding interests of the security of the state re-emerges into public view .
12 But it has not always been like this .
13 Secondly , a continuing and , in some ways , irresolvable problem is how to balance the twin aims of conservation and recreation since , despite the Sandford recommendations , it has not always been clear where the emphasis should be ( Cripps 1980 ) .
14 With a field in its infancy such as this one , it has not always been known which languages were going to be involved until the students were actually recruited .
15 The word instinct is now unfashionable among the scientists who study animal behaviour ; but it has not always been so .
16 but it has not always been easy .
17 The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen .
18 The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food .
19 WHILE BRYAN AND KEITH are now enjoying the fruits of success , it has n't always been easy .
20 But it has n't always been so welcoming .
21 It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away .
22 I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember .
23 It has n't always been easy being the only woman in the house !
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