Example sentences of "always have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
| 2 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 3 | Knowledge and faith would always have been inseparable , even if there had been no Fall ( like the healthy relationship of two twins ) . |
| 4 | Such people would always have been willing to subordinate their political action to unionist unity , if it could be recreated on a sound basis . |
| 5 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 6 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 7 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 8 | There may always have been some in Mercia who did not approve of Offa 's Lichfield policy and the realization that London would be the ideal centre for the southern provinces offered a neat solution to a tangled ecclesiastical and political situation . |
| 9 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 10 | Although Eliot was privately a most generous man — to an extent that many people , especially the young , may not always have been aware — he exercised a public prudence that sometimes faintly amused his associates . |
| 11 | Churchmen must always have been aware of family loyalties , and when these became involved in politics there may often have been a strong temptation to give active support . |