Example sentences of "always a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : with text ( as opposed to speech ) there is always a verbatim record ( hard copy ) of the dialogue or interaction . |
| 2 | The two-part tariff is not always a feasible solution . |
| 3 | The extent to which society is prepared to divert resources of money and skilled manpower to the treatment , education and care of the physically handicapped is always a telling indication of the extent to which society accepts them and truly cares about their welfare . |
| 4 | Anyone under 21 might not realise that Rod Stewart was not always a smug , smarmy middle of the road crooner . |
| 5 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 6 | Another commedia dell'arte character whose play has influenced too few choreographers is that of Harlequin , a maker of mischief , a ‘ magicker of spells ’ , an animal impersonator and always a great dancer . |
| 7 | ‘ I was always a great admirer of Edward Heath , ’ he told me , ‘ because of his passion for music . ’ |
| 8 | It 's always a great temptation to look around , see what other people are doing or what they have got and want to be like them . |
| 9 | It is always a great disappointment when , either as a referee or player , you have to miss a game through injury or illness . |
| 10 | There were always a great many students who took English as a subject in First Arts . |
| 11 | Which is n't always a great thing . |
| 12 | As Bates says : ‘ It 's always a great feeling when the team does well . |
| 13 | Burton was always a great reader . |
| 14 | On the one hand he was no friend of Mike Martinez , since the latter was always a great threat to Fearnley 's own business , which was based firmly on representing European , and especially top British , golfers . |
| 15 | ‘ It was always a great joke : let's get Diana to eat three kippers and six slices of bread for breakfast , ’ says one schoolfriend . |
| 16 | It will be always a great pleasure to remain in contact with the spirit of Olivier Messiaen every time I perform his music . |
| 17 | There , Eva was always a great favourite and able to assume leadership easily . |
| 18 | I was always a great fan of Sheridan . |
| 19 | Coun Bolland said : ‘ It is always a great pleasure to welcome the HMS Jupiter to Middlesbrough , but this visit will of course be tinged with sadness , as it is the last . |
| 20 | There is always a great temptation erm to say ‘ well the City centre is such a complicated area , we should try and get absolutely everything right before we move forward ’ and that I think is a recipe for endless delay , because it 's so complicated , it 's really difficult to get everything right . |
| 21 | It is always a great pleasure to welcome the RSC to the Festival , and this year they are offering two very special productions . |
| 22 | Her annual garden party , for buyers of fleets of cars and trucks who dealt with her husband , was always a memorable occasion , reported upon in detail by the queen of the social columns of the Tollemarche Advent , a lady who could make or break a local hostess . |
| 23 | Moreover , the modern status of officially recognized ‘ languages ’ , as opposed to ‘ dialects ’ — always a controversial question — obscures the fact that , for instance , Khanty has as many as five ‘ dialects ’ which are by no means mutually comprehensible ; the far-flung Evenki Tungus have at least three groups of dialects , and their cousins the Evens as many as thirteen ; and the Nenets Samoeds of the forest have three rather different ‘ dialects ’ , although those of the tundra have a single common language . |
| 24 | Spiced with soldier 's slang and scattered with a mix of European languages , it is at times a shocking , at other times a sentimental , but always a worthwhile account . |
| 25 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 26 | Always a fruitful subject , Captain McArthur said . |
| 27 | In the present relaxed moral climate , there was always a frisky society matron willing to accommodate a discreet young man . |
| 28 | Towns , as we have seen , gave wealth to their rulers , and founding new ones became a quite fashionable activity if not always a successful one . |
| 29 | I was n't always a successful businessman and I remember where I come from . ’ |
| 30 | That body , almost always a professional association , then becomes known as " the appointing authority " . |