Example sentences of "it [vb past] always been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had always been dark , and he had always been anxious to get back to Cheltenham , where he lived . |
| 2 | It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant , and this we discussed with extreme earnestness . |
| 3 | And it had always been one of Gesner 's greatest roles . |
| 4 | Back home it had always been warm . |
| 5 | It had always been customary to assess the special damage separately for convenience . |
| 6 | This can not be sustained : it had always been difficult and there is no evidence that the Seljuks made it conspicuously worse . |
| 7 | In 1976 , in response to a White Paper on devolution to Scotland and Wales , the CNAA commented that it had always been sensitive to the specific conditions and needs of Scotland , and that it might be appropriate for the CNAA to set up a Scottish Committee . |
| 8 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |