Example sentences of "[noun] as it always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 2 | His rangy , graceless figure , over six feet high , still looked as incongruous in a formal suit as it always had . |
| 3 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 4 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 5 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |