Example sentences of "have always [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He made his eighteenth-century reader aware of the travel difficulties , and how they were surmounted — on steep hills by precipices the Highlander and his horse go carefully , the rider sometimes walking , always with a guide : ‘ The horseman has always at his side a native of the place , who , by pursuing game , or tending cattle , or often being employed in messages or conduct , has learned where the ridge of the hill has breadth sufficient to allow a horse and his rider a passage , and where the moss or bog is hard enough to bear them . ’
2 ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone .
3 The transparent ‘ honesty ’ with which he will say good and bad about the people he 's worked with and around has always to be taken as having a ‘ point of view ’ ; that ‘ point of view ’ is governed by what Niki is looking for at any particular moment .
4 This last has always to be measured in terms of numbers , and can take no account of degree of motivation .
5 She has always in her thoughts her parents ' mean condition and I shall do nothing for them , at least at present , because I will keep the girl humble .
6 Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see .
7 At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people .
8 I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself
9 We 've always to be better like , that 's why they 're sitting fourth or fifth in the league .
10 Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year .
11 We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people .
12 Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly .
13 You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there .
14 Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point .
15 No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war .
16 Marriage had always to be delayed until a suitable standing was achieved among middle-class and respectable poor ( Macfarlane 1986 ) .
17 I found I had always to be looking at her feet .
18 It seems that femininity had always to be ‘ cultivated , achieved and preserved , while masculinity could be left to look after itself ’ .
19 So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to , or away from , each other .
20 At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government .
21 What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her .
22 He had always like Reg Littlejohn , who was a widely respected river pilot .
23 They have always to be referred to pedagogic decision .
24 For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " .
25 Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ .
26 We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars .
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