Example sentences of "they have always be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart 's slogan was ‘ War on Graft ’ , Donlevy 's ‘ Doing Things the Way They 've Always Been Done ’ . |
| 2 | They were reasons ‘ which are not new — they 've always been recognised ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , they 've always been pushed to explain why an omnipotent God permits Evil … ’ |
| 4 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 5 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 6 | They had always been fed a diet of worksheets which led them along step by step — now they were thinking and making decisions for themselves . |
| 7 | He knew , too , that they had always been scared by the sight or sound of the Almighty : they were ‘ sore afraid ’ , a phrase which he understood to mean that their bodies hurt because their fear was so great . |
| 8 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 9 | The authority for doing things this way lies in the fact that they have always been done this way and so questioning is not encouraged . |
| 10 | On 3 October 1838 , Charles Darwin wrote in his N notebook that ‘ to study Metaphysics , as they have always been studied appears to me to be like puzzling at astronomy without mechanics … |
| 11 | It is almost certainly true to say that there never was any significant period when god worship and religion were as modern man would wish them to be , but instead , that they have always been corrupted , to some extent , to support greed and excess . |
| 12 | Scotland has 16 Central Institutions , which are similar in function to polytechnics in England and Wales , though they have always been controlled centrally by the Scottish Education Department rather than by local education authorities . |