Example sentences of "but always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you know you are about to start talking about the death of the spouse , but always through recognizing and maybe interpreting the death of the bird that was so griefstricken it died . |
| 2 | Sydel told him that when Jeopardy argued with Amber , it was never about love , but always about the Vibrancy . |
| 3 | Oh you can say you understand , you feel sympathetic , make all the right sounds , but you ca n't know , there 's no way , not the sense of not belonging , of being in a group but always outside it , always different . |
| 4 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 5 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 6 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 7 | But always at the back of my mind there was the memory of Jordi , his knife , his smile , his helpless shrug . |
| 8 | In the Indian as in the Near Eastern traditions , the theistic structure is one which suggests the existence of a single supreme being , under whom many other divine forces may operate , but always at a lesser level to the one ‘ God ’ under whose control they ultimately stand . |
| 9 | The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end . |
| 10 | We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) . |
| 11 | Life had caught up with her , her job , her problems , but always at the very back of her mind the dream remained — Andalucía and a brilliant , handsome man on horseback , secret gardens with wrought-iron gates , fierce fighting bulls and beautiful Arab horses . |
| 12 | The result is an expensive machine : fine for the military , but always on the borderline of profitability . |
| 13 | The establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 meant that the government was now assured of loans at favourable rates , but always on a Parliamentary basis , since the Bank was forbidden to lend without Parliament 's approval . |
| 14 | After this , the longer spent in the company of cats the better , but always with the careful avoidance of any sudden , unanticipated move . |
| 15 | You must use everything you possess — your hands , your fingers , your speech : seductively , poetically , sometimes brutally , but always with a demoniacal passion . ’ |
| 16 | Observe , search and constantly evolve better ways of gathering and writing data , but always with empathy and respect for people and events . ’ |
| 17 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 18 | He stressed that psychoanalysis was never concerned solely with desires seen as arising unmediated from the body , but always with psychic representations of these . |
| 19 | As an undergraduate my sympathies were with the Left , with the Republicans in Spain , with the anti-Fascists in Italy and Germany , but always with a nearly corresponding hostility to the extremes of political thought on the other side . |
| 20 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 21 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 22 | She had heard it before — not often , but always with Luke . |
| 23 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 24 | I have done the circuit many times before , but always with sitting in the co-pilots seat . |
| 25 | Mascis himself hides behind a curtain of hair , uttering barely a word to the audience all evening , letting his guitar do all the squealing and screeching , but always with a suggestion of melody . |
| 26 | There are interesting portraits of Kingsley 's female contemporaries — notably , Mary Slessor , Vice-Consul of Okoyong — but always to the disadvantage of Kingsley herself . |
| 27 | My message therefore , boring but always to be heeded , is ‘ watch your credit control , say NO more often , ask for increased payments more often , use the reference bureaux more often , if in doubt say no — cash in the company is better than a lazy or non repaying loan . ' |
| 28 | When it comes to evangelising , Michael Green reminds us , ‘ Evangelism is never proclamation in a vacuum ; but always to people , and the message must be given in terms that make sense to them ’ ( Green 1970:115 ) . |
| 29 | The original dozen members , who included Goldsmith and Edmund Burke , grew to thirty-five members by 1773 , and , according to Boswell 's footnote , had moved premises more than once — but always to a place where liquor could be had . |
| 30 | Terms are used , like chicks , broads , birds , dolls , slags and tarts which mean that women are never simply ‘ women ’ but always to be defined according to their sexual appearance and their sexual availability . |