Example sentences of "[adv] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you understand — as many do not — that the past is not only always with us , but is us , the cause and context of our every action . |
| 2 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 3 | Bishop Fan Xueyan was described by one of his fellow bishops as someone who ‘ suffered a lot , spending his life between prison and freedom , more or less always under surveillance ’ . |
| 4 | It was something that was more or less always on my mind . |
| 5 | As it can only be grown in Northern India among the foothills of the Himalayas , it is naturally always in great demand and once you savour the fragrance and taste of the rice for yourself you will understand why . |
| 6 | The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own . |
| 7 | But content-driven curriculum is conversely always in danger of reducing the quality of transactions between teacher and child by becoming a handing-out of packages . |
| 8 | Provincial assemblies met thereafter always with clerical proctors present when a subsidy to the king was at issue and sometimes when it was not . |
| 9 | It was nonchalant in its dealings with other cats , disdainfully ignoring the usual status battles , which were nearly always between males or between females — there was little social fighting across the genders . |
| 10 | In the evenings there was sometimes singing on deck to the accompaniment of a lute , and sorrowful music it was too , because the songs were nearly always about broken hearts , unrequited love , or dear ones lost at sea . |
| 11 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |
| 12 | Seed of biennials or short-lived perennials , such as foxgloves , are nearly always worth saving — but sow some now , and store the rest . |
| 13 | The supporters from three of these teams have a history of violence ; in Cairo , riot police are nearly always on hand , and even referees need protection from death threats . |
| 14 | In 1834 it was notable for being more varied in coat colour than any other breed , but nearly always with the white finchback and white hough spots it still has today . |
| 15 | Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent . |
| 16 | But nearly always at home . |
| 17 | Surely the English and French were nearly always at war in those days . ’ |
| 18 | Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports . |
| 19 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 20 | The behaviour that this requires ( e.g. plant closures , the use of environmentally damaging production processes ) will often be contrary to the interests of non-shareholder groups , but nearly always of advantage to the members ( with an exception sometimes arising in the take-over context ) . |
| 21 | Clear air is nearly always of paramount importance . |
| 22 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 23 | The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way . |
| 24 | The loft was nearly always above the stable . ’ |
| 25 | Though the artist was ill with tuberculosis and had no money to pay for his keep , Marama looked after him while he painted her over and over again ; sometimes nude , sometimes dressed , and nearly always against the background of island scenery — near the waterfalls and the secret pools , in dells that laced the volcanic slopes , in the village market , in the main street of Anani . |
| 26 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |
| 27 | Referral of the problems which concern him comes nearly always from a parent or outsider . |
| 28 | And the funerals were I would say , nearly always from the house . |
| 29 | In that pure evening light of late summer the plains were brown and golden , with here a crumbling village with women nearly always in black , and here a straggling group of toylike , stunted umbrella pines . |
| 30 | These birds are nearly always in winter plumage and presumably are immature . |