Example sentences of "have always [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier .
2 It has always been like that .
3 He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’
4 If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that .
5 He has always been like this .
6 yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road
7 ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains .
8 I 've always been like that .
9 I 've always been like that .
10 I 've always been like that .
11 I 've always been like that .
12 Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that .
13 Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one .
14 But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession .
15 He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right .
16 Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition .
17 During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies .
18 Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that .
19 It had always been like that .
20 I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that .
21 ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’
22 And he 's always been like that .
23 ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’
24 He 's always been like that and he has n't changed .
25 He 's always been like that .
26 No it 's always been like that .
27 But he 's always been like that with them kids you know yourself if they do anything it 's got ta be done
28 That 's always been like that .
29 well it never has done I mean that , it 's always been like that I 've never had
30 She 's always been like that though .
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