Example sentences of "has always been [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 2 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 3 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 4 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 5 | Reid has always been like a terrier chasing a bone on the pitch — opponents never get a moment 's peace . |