Example sentences of "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 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 4 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 5 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 6 | Those under threat in the cities have not always been so lucky . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are organizationally secular schools , though some clergy are members of the local governing committees and this has always been a feature . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
| 13 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 14 | But that has always been my way , he wrote . |
| 15 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 16 | The listing of pubs is made more difficult by the fact that they have almost always been altered . |
| 17 | In the UK , franchising has always played a significant role , although relations between franchisor and franchisee have not always been smooth , according to the report . |
| 18 | He 's always been a bit on his dignity , I suppose , but that 's the way he is . |
| 19 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 20 | The lady had always been a bit flighty in her mind — nervous , delicate , taking odd fancies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Of course , the desire to obtain control of the written word has always been one indication of the autocratic mind . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 27 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |
| 28 | Jay lived best when inspired ; for her love had always been the inspiration ; she lived and wrote from passion , passion which led to the abyss . |
| 29 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 30 | 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 . |