Example sentences of "[noun] always [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A : Journalists always make the assumption that to be married for a number of years is to be happily married for those years .
2 The best Homes always have plenty going on .
3 NURSING HOMES always have a qualified nurse or nurses on duty .
4 Henry Cotton always maintained that the turning point in his own career was his sojourn in America in the company of Tommy Armour .
5 When I hear the word " tending " I think always of that confident attentiveness to the needs of the machines , the control over work that was unceasing , with half a mind and hands engaged but the looms always demanding attention .
6 ( d ) Action on receipt of reply Always inform clients of result of search ; if any material entry , confer with them and take their instructions before exchanging contracts .
7 Politeness always conceals a refusal to face other kinds of reality .
8 Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman .
9 Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours .
10 ( That 's where a real musher always rests his arm on the cab window-frame during traffic jams . )
11 Levi 's only did Sta-Prest — and imitations always looked it — usually too tapered , crumply , and the wrong tones .
12 All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’
13 The ill-feeling from the battle of Anfield always remained close to the surface and Stewart was booked for an uncompromising tackle on Eric Young , with Palace 's Richard Shaw receiving a caution for similar treatment of Walters .
14 The western slopes of the Annalong Valley are a superb vantage points to watch shepherds and dogs in action , and if your itinerary always includes a stop for a mug of tea then be warned that the only tea-shop I know of in the area is in the park at the bottom of Silent Valley .
15 Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut .
16 To cope with the traditional use of variable hours , so that the period of daylight always comprised twelve , Andronicus is thought to have used a system that is described in detail by his Roman contemporary , the architect Vitruvius .
17 Her action always embarrassed him , but as it was unobtrusive he doubted if anyone else noticed it .
18 If a rational style of thinking and intention openly presented , with results of action always revealed , became a large scale , habitually public act , it alone would be a considerable achievement .
19 Whereas working class collective action always faces the difficulty of individualism , self-interest and fragmentation , the collective interests of capital are less ambiguous — simply to make profits .
20 For him , political action always has a moral purpose .
21 You can place a marker at the edge of the swim which , at forty yards or more range , is a tremendous aid to accurate casting and ensures that groundbait always goes in the same spot .
22 There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ .
23 ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley .
24 Ramsey always remained critical of Hoskyns .
25 There is an ambivalence in Genet which his critic always misread and his defenders often overlook .
26 Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner .
27 This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) .
28 But once our hero was free and the villain disposed of , M always granted him ‘ passionate leave ’ , thus setting the seal of HMG 's approval on well-earned fornication , unthinkable in Colonel Buchan 's day .
29 The less massive body m is in synchronous rotation and the orbital eccentricity is small , and therefore the tide on m always lies along the line to M. Because the tide on M is misaligned then m can exert a twisting force on M called a torque and this tends to produce alignment .
30 Poor-sighted as they were , they caught the brilliant light of the jewel , but you had mistakenly put it on your left hand , whereas Lady Eleanor always wore the ring on the right .
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