Example sentences of "have always been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been ACET 's policy to work with and complement statutory and other voluntary organizations . |
| 2 | How to find the money necessary to carry out Amnesty 's work has always been a worry , and from the very beginning the Section Office asked groups for help in this area . |
| 3 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 4 | They are organizationally secular schools , though some clergy are members of the local governing committees and this has always been a feature . |
| 5 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 6 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 7 | So that behind the changes of direction , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , this has always been a constant , the feeling of disgust in the pit of the stomach . |
| 8 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
| 9 | But that has always been my way , he wrote . |
| 10 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 11 | The Festival has always been a popular meeting place for people interested in all areas of film and television , and this year we are pleased to host a one day workshop for BLACK WOMEN WRITERS . |
| 12 | To an extent , this has always been there , but it 's important to raise the issue here because the most unfashionable person to help is often the person who is dying on your own doorstep . |
| 13 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 14 | Of course , the desire to obtain control of the written word has always been one indication of the autocratic mind . |
| 15 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 16 | To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community . |
| 17 | Linear representation of solid form has always been a valid artistic technique , especially in drawing ( as distinct from painting ) , and it can be used in marquetry work also provided the nature of the material ( ie. wood ) is not ignored . |
| 18 | It has always been a problem : the ghosts are n't laughing now . |
| 19 | My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them . |
| 20 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ English ’ in American schools and universities has always been a cultural , not a progressive , intellectual subject . |
| 22 | When Scholes proposes ‘ studying texts ’ he invokes the terminology of semiotics , but he is , in effect , working in a tradition of rhetorical analysis that has always been an element in institutional English study , and which in the 1930s resulted in the work of Leavis and Thompson and other Scrutineers on contemporary culture and its artefacts . |
| 23 | There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s . |
| 24 | The Master of the Rolls has always been keen to find a middle way . ’ |
| 25 | WHO TO WATCH While the best that chart music can manage in the way of band names is Black Box , the pub circuit has always been ripe with imaginative handles . |
| 26 | What if , by some unforeseen mischance , the vaccinia-rabies hybrid turned into an organism that actually spread rabies - a disease that has always been comparatively difficult to catch — with smallpox-like contagion ? |
| 27 | The society , which has a permanent parliamentary lobbyist , has always been politically pragmatic and astute , compromising to make any progress , however small . |
| 28 | John Evans , 112 , Britain 's oldest man was asked to give evidence at a public inquiry to help prove a footpath linking Fforest-fach and Gowerton in West Glamorgan , has always been public . |
| 29 | Lord Callaghan , the last Labour prime minister , said : ‘ What happened in the 1980s was a temporary aberration from what has always been the real position of the Labour Party , and Neil Kinnock has recaptured the traditional position . ’ |
| 30 | The London-born , Cardiff-based man , from Edinburgh , has always been hard to pin down . |