Example sentences of "was always [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 2 | Hong Kong was always a free-wheeling , highly materialistic city , with more than its full share of pirates and crooks . |
| 3 | Before 1939 the ecumenical movement was always a clerical élite within the older Churches . |
| 4 | ELIOT was always a careful listener . |
| 5 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 6 | There was no major racial tension around but there was always a slight twist on the relationship with black people . |
| 7 | He must have reckoned that having a back-up trade was always a handy thing when you 're going into something as risky as the music business . |
| 8 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 9 | Although there was plenty of loutish and rough behaviour in public by groups of juveniles , there was always a counterbalancing influence within male culture . |
| 10 | ‘ It seemed to work OK , although I was always a bit worried Thom might take Eva from me — he still had her US passport . ’ |
| 11 | Contemporary reasons for continuing to build large barns included the view that grain was better housed in barns than in ricks and was always a hand to be threshed , while the cost of thatching ricks was avoided and savings were made by avoiding the double-handling generated by moving ricks to the barn for threshing . |
| 12 | ‘ He was always a free spirit , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Visiting her in her London house was always a joy . |
| 14 | And there is something about rail travel that is essentially Canadian : the US , deep down , was always a stagecoach society , wayward and unpredictable ; trains seem right for Canada , exciting but disciplined . |
| 15 | I was always a totally dissatisfied consumer , aflood with complaints . |
| 16 | There was always a modest manor at Sutton , held at the time of the Domesday survey by Henry de Ferrers , then by the Boschervilles , who gave it to the Priory of Trentham . |
| 17 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 18 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 19 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 20 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 21 | But the idea of a tax as some kind of entry ticket for citizenship was always a nonsense : too many are able to dodge paying it . |
| 22 | The association with Lancashire lasted until 1986 and was always a happy one , for he was enormously popular with the fans and with his team-mates . |
| 23 | Apparently there was always a flood of people flowing through the farmhouse : friends , friends of friends , friends of friends of friends . |
| 24 | Getting to the village was always a highly dramatic event witnessed by a yelling , clapping audience . |
| 25 | Friday was always a busy day . |
| 26 | There was always a faint smell , too , of something rotting . |
| 27 | It was always a long wait at the bus stop , followed by a long ride . |
| 28 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 29 | It was always a Toulouse Lautrec evening in the barrio chino : grotesque , horrible , funny , depressing , exciting and often pleasantly relaxing . |
| 30 | I was always a stick walking down the road with a flat chest . |