Example sentences of "have always been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything has always been referred back to mother . |
| 2 | Writing has always been fitted in before other demands on her time — two hours in the morning before the children were awake when they were living at home . |
| 3 | So my profession , which has always been mixed up in politics , becomes an essential component of nationalism . |
| 4 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 5 | Macedonia , lying across the southern end of the Vardar-Morava corridor which connects the central Danubian lowlands to the Aegean coasts , has always been fought over by rival powers . |
| 6 | As the language of the Vedic scriptures , Sanskrit has always been looked down upon by tradition as the language of the divine . |
| 7 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 8 | ‘ Our brief has always been to get back to our home ground and stay in the First Division and I think we are capable of achieving both . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've always been marked down as the non-violent type . |
| 10 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 11 | I 've always been brought up to be domesticated — to do the housework and dust and wash up and cook — so it 's a natural instinct really . |
| 12 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 13 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |
| 14 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 15 | Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's always been linked in as part of photography , but it does n't interest me at all . |
| 17 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 18 | There have been recurring attempts by the police service since World War II to develop alternative means of entry and promotion to the traditional progression from the ranks , which have always been met by by by bitter reference to the schemes of the 1930s . |
| 19 | Because y do n't forget that in the past , building societies have always been taken over by you know , sort of friendly merger . |