Example sentences of "had always be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony . |
| 2 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 3 | One of the key elements of the paper had always been that it should be run on consensus lines , with broad agreement among the group , often expressed by a vote before any decision was taken . |
| 4 | Her one great fear had always been that she would lose her children — they were too precious to her , they had cost to much to lose now . |
| 5 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |