Example sentences of "[conj] have always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the kind of voice that has always inspired extravagant metaphors . |
| 2 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 3 | A leading Israeli journalist was soon to ascribe that misjudgment to the ‘ historic blindness ’ that has always bedevilled Israeli governments and public , ensuring that developments which , to outsiders , might seem all but pre-ordained come as a very disagreeable shock to them . |
| 4 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 5 | One type of music that has always had it s roots in the spiritual realm is traditional Irish . |
| 6 | There 's a consoling belief , one that has always held dull sway over critical and receptive minds , that both rock and pop are fundamentally about Good Songs . |
| 7 | Does it mean that anti-fashion , that healthy disrespect for clobber that has always thrived in Britain , is taking hold in menswear 's twin capitals ? |
| 8 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 9 | Though he is very much a mystic , there is a part of Ali that has always found security and a skewed understanding of life in the quantifiable : amounts , calibrated outcomes , the creaking , reassuring machinery of living . |
| 10 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 11 | It was Sylvie 's unconventionality that had always fascinated them all . |
| 12 | The solution was relatively easy partly because what was required by society as a whole fitted in very closely with what the showmen believed themselves and partly because the new social awareness was really only a refinement of those old nineteenth-century platitudes that had always underpinned popular fiction . |
| 13 | Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust . |
| 14 | A created universe , unlike one that had always existed , was one in which the Creator had been free to exercise His will in devising the laws that nature should obey . |
| 15 | But of the endless numbers that had always grown there , only a few dozen remained . |
| 16 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 17 | His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him . |
| 18 | I lay on his bed later and strove to want him , strove to feel even a faint shadow of the sensations that had always engulfed me before , when I had known they must be frustrated . |
| 19 | Then she had started on a career that had always appealed to her : in the world of antiques . |
| 20 | She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known . |
| 21 | It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered . |
| 22 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 23 | SUDDENLY , the course of history seemed to change : penalties , a subject that had always clouded Barcelona 's relationship with Real Madrid , now fell upon the Catalans like gentle rain . |
| 24 | However , they also imply that there could be objects that have always travelled at faster-than light speeds . |
| 25 | By marrying Anne , Tim will cement the strong ties that have always existed between the armed forces and royalty . |
| 26 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 27 | Such boardroom pique may not be unique to Hollywood , though it is characteristic of the shenanigans that have always plagued the entertainment industry . |
| 28 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 29 | would see a difference but people that have always worked in here do n't notice any difference . |
| 30 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |