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 . |