Example sentences of "it [vb -s] always " in BNC.

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1 The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different .
2 It has always been ACET 's policy to work with and complement statutory and other voluntary organizations .
3 On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years .
4 It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion .
5 It has always been a problem : the ghosts are n't laughing now .
6 Although the option of US military intervention has often been canvassed , it has always officially been discounted .
7 ( This is why , in the media , it has always been Tory governments that have created new radio or television channels , whether Radio Clyde , Granada Television , London Jazz Radio , or Channel Four . )
8 Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership .
9 There appears to be a wide variety of newspapers available to the public ( even though appearances deceive ) , and it has always been possible in principle ( if not in practice ) to found a new paper .
10 It is unexportable , because prescription , the inherent authority of that which has always been so , is a writ which runs only where it has always been so and amongst those amongst whom it has always been so .
11 It is unexportable , because prescription , the inherent authority of that which has always been so , is a writ which runs only where it has always been so and amongst those amongst whom it has always been so .
12 Eventual physical breakdown of the material is delayed by careful preparation of the substratum and it has always been safer to lay asphalt on concrete roof slabs than on timber boarding .
13 Halifax general manager David Gilchrist says : ‘ It has always been the belief that this process of consultation would be extremely cumbersome and costly .
14 It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection .
15 It has always been absent from Scotland and Ireland .
16 It has always looked a bit ramshackle , with its claustrophobic nets , which were gas-lit until the 1960s .
17 And as a consequence , it has always been prohibitively expensive .
18 It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes .
19 It has always been acknowledged as a superior rice and with the move to whole grains , brown Basmati is now much in demand .
20 But it has always been wrong , and is more wrong today than ever before .
21 It has always been hard for them to translate their music success into a sustained movie career .
22 It has always been my belief that casuals were just beer-swilling animals with the intelligence of donkeys , but the letter you published was clearly written by someone who has enough intelligence to put his radically extremist views into practice and cause a lot of harm .
23 it is then that the honeysuckle and dog rose , twining through the hawthorn hedge , add their quota of blossom to prove that here , at least , the seasonal model is as it has always been .
24 But it has always been the privilege of the genius to know these things before other men .
25 ‘ That is the precise problem it has always been .
26 It has always involved thin movable extensions of the side of the body , but that is as far as the resemblance goes .
27 Of course , what applies to animals applies equally to people : indeed , it has always been the declared aim of the behaviourists to understand and to control human behaviour .
28 It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation .
29 It has always remained technically under Peking 's control despite being surrounded by territory ceded or leased to Britain .
30 I have noticed that it has always been the acers that have aroused the greatest number of inquiries from readers visiting The Daily Telegraph 's garden at the Chelsea Flower Show ( preparations for this year 's are already advanced , by the way ) .
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