Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such expressions of wide-eyed optimism were always associated with the New World , or the new nations of the Commonwealth , hardly ever with the Old Country . |
| 2 | During the 1950s and 1960s , Plan forecasts for business investment were always well below the outcome . |
| 3 | The stories , to my mind were always better in Bunty than in other comics , and this is probably why it has continued without merger , where others have failed . |
| 4 | Reading and eating were always metaphorically linked at the time . |
| 5 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 6 | The sinking stomach pains which heralded this loss were always welcome to me , and afterwards I would feel triumphantly clean . |
| 7 | ‘ I got a great reception but the club were always generous to me when I played and managed here . |
| 8 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 9 | In many respects Griffith was a conventional story-teller and melodrama was always really the framework of his themes . |
| 10 | But Russia 's ability to accept capitalist economic aid was always in doubt and Molotov walked out of the Paris talks on 2 July , complaining that the Marshall Plan would lead to Germany 's industrial revival and infringe the economic independence of European States , which would become US puppets . |
| 11 | The stock was always conceived as essentially complementary to the house 's fine interior , with the result that it retained a domestic atmosphere . |
| 12 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
| 13 | MainMan was always in debt and Tony had always gone out and found money to do projects , so it was fine . |
| 14 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 15 | There , as Blair had so persuasively pointed out to Sloane , he diligently tilled his soil to cultivate the beautiful flowers and shrubs of which , in later writings , his own appreciation was always apparent . |
| 16 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 17 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 18 | But the result was always the same . |
| 19 | Repeatedly the hoarse-voiced Feldwebels tried to rally their men forward in one more supreme effort , but the result was always the same . |
| 20 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 21 | Murder was always solved at a cost , sometimes to himself , more often to others . |
| 22 | Mrs Chalker , whose seat was always considered a possible casualty , lost her majority to Labour with a loss of 1,819 votes . |
| 23 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 24 | Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ . |
| 25 | My reply was always the same : ‘ Just read the papers and it will come naturally . ’ |
| 26 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 27 | She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away . |
| 28 | But , to me , jazz was always , and still is , much more rebellious than rock'n'roll , especially now . |
| 29 | Communication with a roving agent was always fraught with difficulties , but Leone was dilatory and displayed little sense of urgency as the new season approached : Giardini impulsively began to open up negotiations himself , resulting in an increasingly frenetic tone to the correspondence . |
| 30 | Yet , their frame of mind was always streaked with anxiety that caused them both to be forever on the watch . |