Example sentences of "have always [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon . |
| 2 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 3 | The emphasis has always been on producing verifiable statements of income and expenditure , balance sheets and , latterly , cash flows . |
| 4 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 5 | But then he has always been on top of the situation . |
| 6 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 7 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 8 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 9 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 10 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 11 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 12 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 13 | The poets had always been on the side of the people . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As far as I 've been told and remember , Dad 's always been on the boat , yeah . |
| 16 | The 1988 social security changes have always been on the agenda of the project and with the abolition of additional requirements and single payments , new sources of support must be found for the core families . |
| 17 | Tealtaoich said , ‘ You have always been on the side of justice , Trees ; come with us and fight with us and for us , as you have done in the past . ’ |
| 18 | Leslie Evans , the council 's assistant director for arts and entertainment , said : ‘ The musicals we have had have always been on a quite tight financial squeeze because we have a fairly small theatre with about 1,300 seats . |