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

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1 it is then that the honeysuckle and dog rose , twining through the hawthorn hedge , add their quota of blossom to prove that here , at least , the seasonal model is as it has always been .
2 The Corporation remains , as it has always been , the prime defender of broadcasting freedom and standards .
3 The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) .
4 He 's a carpet-and-slippers man who would be happy to run the firm as it has always been run . ’
5 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 .
6 The reality is now , as it has always been , that teaching is a demanding , and at times frustrating profession .
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 Our ‘ comparative advantage ’ — as it has always been — is to grow grass better than most , but with grain prices under CAP reform set to fall towards world level grass is an increasingly expensive feed .
9 The same as it has always been .
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