Example sentences of "as [pron] always has [be] " in BNC.

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1	As Fokine said : ‘ There can never be revolution in dance , only evolution , because the human body remains as it always has been , a living apparatus which can only move in certain well-defined ways . ’
2	Obtaining compliance will be as difficult as it always has been , but an international community which has used sanctions to encourage change in southern Africa should be able to tackle the much more serious issues of enforcement associated with climate change and international security .
3	There was also a boom in organ-building and piano-playing because music was not only ‘ the food of life ’ as it always has been , but also the mood background to films .
4	MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now .
5	The essence of the plan is , as it always has been , to reduce oil dependence but the specific objective — oil supplying 50% of demand by 1985 — seems unlikely to be achieved .
6	As it always has been .
7	However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s .
8	Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been .
9	Just as it always has been .
10	You know it 's it 's as possible as it always has been .
11	The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people .

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