Example sentences of "always [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So said Lizzie and Maria and Ethel , whose marriages had always been conducted along the lines of a pitched battle .
2 The remaining 42 vessels have always been registered in the United Kingdom , but were purchased by the companies in question on various dates , mainly since 1983 .
3 This effectiveness-centred approach has not always been accepted outside the Modular Course .
4 And oddly enough , that discussion and analysis has always been coloured by the extra-linguistic ideology of sexual difference and male superiority .
5 For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance .
6 Classification had always been based on the recognition of structural resemblances , and the advent of evolutionism merely transposed this enterprise into a search for real ( i.e. historical ) rather than purely formal relationships .
7 History has always been conceived as the movement of a resumption of history , as a detour between two presences .
8 The depiction of battle has always been tempered by the social climate , as Ann Kodicek discovers in her study of war art past and present .
9 The depiction of battle has always been tempered by the social climate , as Ann Kodicek discovers in her study of war art past and present .
10 The FCC competition has helped to concentrate the minds of everyone in the broadcast industry on the digital technology which has always been employed by the computer industry .
11 Historians have always been fascinated by the decline of political parties .
12 I 'd always been fascinated by the people who live on the skid rows of our cities — the ones we regard as the scum of the earth .
13 People have always been fascinated by the question of animal consciousness , because both pets and wild animals arouse our admiration and curiosity .
14 Elite theorists have always been fascinated by the phenomenon of political leadership , an orientation already reflected in their accounts of modern input politics which accord a primary role to political entrepreneurs in building up lobby groups or social movements , and to party leaders in shaping the development of mass ‘ public opinion ’ .
15 I have always been struck by the role of particular cit.es in certain works which have conveyed a very exact sense of historical location , e.g. Manchester appears in this way in accounts as diverse as those of De Toqueville and Engels , and Spring 's enormously popular novels of the 1930s .
16 In fact , even before the days of plate tectonics , I have always been struck by the paucity of oceanic sediments in the continental areas .
17 Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style .
18 Provision for the subsistence of those no longer working has always been made by the community .
19 Neighbouring Middlesbrough has always been developed as the regional centre .
20 In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta .
21 The library , in which the tradition of Warburg is enshrined , has always been seen as the Institute 's essential purpose .
22 Protection from pure competition is known as " a covenant in gross " and has always been rejected by the courts .
23 But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent .
24 Child instruction has always been hampered by the age-old problem posed by constraints of religion .
25 His bullying tactics had always been reserved for the weaker sex , Virginia guessed bitterly .
26 At nineteen she is the youngest of four children and has always been treated as the " little one " .
27 The Venetian ambassador complained that though the republic had always been treated as the equal of the kingdoms of Europe he had been offered a place which did not fully reflect this .
28 The aerial battles of World War One have always been shadowed by the dogfights of World War Two .
29 Apart from this unfortunate monarch , a good deal of interest has always been shown in the site , with a long sequence of systematic excavation from 1906 down to the present day .
30 ‘ The BBC has always been classified as the station which tells the truth and they should make sure their research has been properly done before they publish anything else . ’
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