Example sentences of "which [was/were] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which were always there and would outlast even the war . |
| 2 | As Bentley rightly asserts , the Liberal Party generally reverted to its traditional free trade policies when all the experimentation was over — policies which were always popular in the local Liberal parties . |
| 3 | The plastic ones now on sale in every garden centre are much more manageable than the old glass type , which were always getting broken . |
| 4 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 5 | Coleridge was the first to recognize that ‘ Freshmen always begin very furiously ’ ; but so long as Middleton was at hand to guide and encourage , he overcame the weakness of will and habit of procrastination which were always ready to disable him . |
| 6 | When a small boy , I felt sorry for their horses , which were always black in colour , so that they could be put to use for funerals . |
| 7 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 8 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century the whole of this load , equivalent to the weight of many railway trains , had to be carried by hemp ropes which were always shrinking and swelling , rotting and stretching so that it called for great skill to avoid the loss of some or all of the masts and spars . |
| 9 | Yet their work also represents a very important process , unlike any of the preceding ‘ -isms ’ , which were always a continuation : Impressionism started the ball rolling , was continued by Fauvism which was a distortion of it , followed by Cubism , again a distortion but still ‘ retinal ’ , because the importance of the visual experience was always the decisive factor . |
| 10 | ( In a subsequent experiment Axelrod , Haryadi and Leiber ( 1977 ) used letter strings which were always pronounceable but the approximation of the letter clusters to real English varied such that some letter combinations occurred very commonly in English ( called high frequency approximations ) while others occurred much less frequently ( low frequency approximations ) . |
| 11 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 12 | I 'd better warn you , my rates , which were always pretty high , are now almost beyond belief . ’ |
| 13 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 14 | Claims to scientific rationality , which were always dubious , have given way to the increasing use of value judgements ( Klein 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Decisions on change were not based on whim or fancy but were the result of keen study of the meticulous costing records which were always a prominent feature of management at Cessford . |
| 16 | Usually I was challenged as to why I was not reading law , which was always quoted as the ‘ proper ’ subject for a police officer . |
| 17 | His left thigh , his jumping take-off leg , which was always an inch and a half thicker than the right , is now two and a half inches thinner . |
| 18 | For Lawrence submission to the integrity/mastery of another is an erotically charged solution to a primary metaphysical conflict which was always more than sexual . |
| 19 | Simultaneously , Task Force Semper Fidelis , composed of US marines and military police , seized the main road across the canal , the Bridge of the Americas , and secured the approaches to Howard Air Force Base , which was always under US military control . |
| 20 | And then at last , the summit , with the cloud shadows scudding across the huge curved expanse and a band of sea which was always surprisingly broad ‘ and above the sea the line of the Downs , so noble and so bare ’ . |
| 21 | They , and they alone , provided a breathing space from a crown which was always harsh , even if occasionally leavened with the charisma of a James IV . |
| 22 | You could say , perhaps , that the Star Rank scheme was largely put on ice , but that was for want of a sponsor , which was always vital to the future of the scheme . |
| 23 | The offence , which was always delicately balanced , was caused by ‘ Suffer Little CHildren ’ . |
| 24 | The habitats which have been hardest hit by the post-war agricultural revolution are on land which was always regarded as the most marginal : the barest hilltops , the steepest hillsides , and the wettest valley bottoms . |
| 25 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 26 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |
| 27 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 28 | For years he had an inner voice which was always putting him down . |
| 29 | This quality is reflected in an accent that has a blunt and acerbic ring to it , especially in east Berlin , which was always more plebeian than most western districts . |
| 30 | There was a wall on the far side of the street which was always being knocked over . |