Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] has always been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 2 | It is unexportable , because prescription , the inherent authority of that which has always been so , is a writ which runs only where it has always been so and amongst those amongst whom it has always been so . |
| 3 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 4 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 5 | The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers . |
| 6 | The message of the Burgess shale — that there has always been variety , and no one can say in what forms it will survive until it has done so — remains . |
| 7 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 8 | This suggests that there has always been an underlying awareness that company law doctrine was engaged in a discourse about the legitimation of power . |
| 9 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 10 | Alan Wilcox puts it down to the fact that there has always been a hard core of people for whom it becomes their chief social interest . |
| 11 | I have noticed that it has always been the acers that have aroused the greatest number of inquiries from readers visiting The Daily Telegraph 's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show ( preparations for this year 's are already advanced , by the way ) . |
| 12 | Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position . |
| 13 | The main attraction of B&B is that it has always been far cheaper than hotels and this is still the case . |
| 14 | W.H.R chairman Al McNicol confirmed that it has always been the Company policy to rebuild to Dinas . |
| 15 | And the court 's position in the constitutional structure does not mean that it has always been deeply engaged in the pressing national questions of the day . |
| 16 | One might easily assume that it has always been an important road . |
| 17 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 18 | In Molly 's own words : ‘ Thinking back to these early classes , I realise that it has always been the enthusiastic response of the class members that has made it seem supremely worth while to go on … |
| 19 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 20 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 21 | He claims that he has always been an ‘ outsider ’ , ‘ unique ’ is perhaps a better description . |
| 22 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 23 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North ( Mr. Speller ) began by drawing attention to the fact that he has always been generous in his praise of the constituency record of Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 25 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 26 | ‘ I know Alan from the England set-up , and everyone has always been impressed with his work . ’ |
| 27 | Her mother said : ‘ My son , who is two and a half , has slept in the cot before with no problems and she has always been alright in it . |
| 28 | If she has always been an outgoing person , her grief will probably be expressed in painful episodes of weeping , punctuated by the need to ‘ talk it all out ’ over and over again in great detail to you and to other sympathetic relatives and friends , and you will help her a great deal if you are a patient listener . |
| 29 | Rowell , though , is hugely loyal to his Bath players and there has always been a worry that he would promote Bath men without due regard for the balance of the side , as Ron Waldron did with such disastrous results for Wales . |
| 30 | The probation service 's task in prison is primarily to provide a social work service to those imprisoned and there has always been a conflict between the day-to-day , mundane but pressing needs of prisoners cut off from family and friends , and the more reflective analytical and purposeful work related to offending behaviour in which Probation Officers wanted to engage . |