Example sentences of "always be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 2 | That content too has always been felt to be linked to the aesthetic in some way — though again as of late , in theoretical studies this has not been examined . |
| 3 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 4 | The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry . |
| 5 | In poetry this minimum may always be assumed to be present but that is not true of the making of images . |
| 6 | New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school . |
| 7 | The metric tensor can always be chosen to be symmetric under interchange of its subscripts . |
| 8 | The value when repaired for these purposes should always be taken to be the insured value . |
| 9 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |