Example sentences of "it [verb] always [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who owns which bit of land and what they decide to do with it has always been of critical importance , and our landscape is the result of countless human decisions taken by individuals in the past . |
| 2 | It has always been to the Society 's credit that preservation work undertaken on its Merlin engines has involved every nut , bolt and washer being removed , cleaned , treated and replaced so that when rebuilt the engine should stand every chance of lasting for many future generations . |
| 3 | It should not be assumed , however , that when religious beliefs have functioned as primitive science , it has always been to the detriment of further inquiry . |
| 4 | It has always been like that . |
| 5 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 6 | True , the black cows , apparently of no fixed abode , that used to saunter along the streets and back lanes , foraging and friendly , have gone , and Edmund MacKenzie has moved his shop to new premises , but otherwise Plockton today is as it has always been within my memory , and is best appreciated in the evenings when the day trippers have departed . |
| 7 | Since the knowledge required will be prescribed , the tendency will be ( as it has always been in teaching ) to present it in such a form as to be acceptable to the average child . |
| 8 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
| 9 | ‘ It has always been in the family and we know that James Springhall lived in Cargo Fleet Road , but other than that I 'm afraid we do n't know a great deal about him , or his life in Australia . ’ |
| 10 | Only the United Kingdom economy performed as badly during the seventies and it has always been near the bottom of the league . |
| 11 | And he was right , it had always been between them . |
| 12 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 13 | It had always been like that . |
| 14 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 15 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 16 | For a moment , for the first time in his life , he began to realize why his grandfather had never lost his love of Mother Russia , why it had always been in his blood . |
| 17 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 18 | Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night . |
| 19 | That 's how it 's always been with Oliver and me . |
| 20 | Again by tradition , it 's the oldest profession , it 's always been with us , possibly always will . |
| 21 | It 's always been on my mind — I suppose it always will — and I 've always said that if I got the opportunity to kill the man I 'd do it , and I would take the consequences . |
| 22 | Every time Billy come around it 's always been about Billy ? |
| 23 | Er , well no , it 's always been in the place it 's in now |
| 24 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 25 | It 's always been in there . |
| 26 | It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe it 's always been like this |
| 28 | No it 's always been like that . |
| 29 | well it never has done I mean that , it 's always been like that I 've never had |