Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] always [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unclear whether the Ukraine had the power to carry out these resolutions ; the final decisions on such matters had hitherto always been taken in Moscow . |
| 2 | Thus , patients were not always being admitted to hospital and , when admitted , had not always been referred to a psychiatrist . |
| 3 | These materials had not always been associated ; it was only in the nineteenth century that iron smelting came to the coalfields because of technological and economic convenience . |
| 4 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 5 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |