Example sentences of "always [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 People are n't always off work .
2 His Puritan inclinations found favour with the electorate of Poole , which he first represented in the Addled Parliament of 1614 , and he sat , always for Dorset constituencies , in ten of its next twelve successors .
3 German ‘ pure ’ contrapuntal keyboard music was at first always for organ , not harpsichord , and stylistically modelled on the Venetians , as may be seen in the two fantasies and two canzoni francese in Paix 's book and the various organ works of Hassler and his successor at Augsburg , Christian Erbach ( c. 1570–1635 ) .
4 The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County .
5 To argue always for unfudgeability is to argue for form over substance with all the waste of capital that entails .
6 It was mixed with tweed at KL , with tailored wools at Positiv , with jersey and rib-knit at Escada … sometimes for a jacket or waistcoat , sometimes a skirt , and always for trousers or jeans .
7 Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity .
8 Children are always for analysis , usually by their parents , they do n't usually come of their .
9 His preferences were always for medals and engraved gems , and miniatures by artists such as Giulio Clovio , who painted the celebrated ‘ Farnese Hours ’ for him .
10 They 're always for sale .
11 It is always worth while covering both the pitot and static vents to prevent rain entering the systems .
12 IT IS always worth timing visits to the French Alps to avoid French school holidays .
13 Seed of biennials or short-lived perennials , such as foxgloves , are nearly always worth saving — but sow some now , and store the rest .
14 Among many enthusiastic comments quoted in the booklet which accompanies this disc there is only by Andrew Porter , who , having heard Alessandra Marc sing the title-role in Respighi 's La fiamma , wrote in The New Yorker : ‘ she is always worth hearing ; hers is perhaps the richest , fullest , most beautiful big soprano voice around ’ .
15 One or two people who are always worth hearing if you can bear with me .
16 Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson .
17 Yet all we had was here and now , and here and now … always through time … was where the struggle towards goodness had to be fought .
18 Now that was always about Will .
19 Reports are not always about revolutions and that 's important !
20 It is n't always about cost .
21 In the history of litigation in rock ‘ n ’ roll it is almost always about money .
22 Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization .
23 And the conversations are n't always about tennis .
24 Warfare in this region was always about sieges .
25 At one level , literature is always about language , so that , in the words of Tzvetan Todorov , ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) .
26 I know , if we ever fall out it 's always about family at Christmas .
27 The leading — and final — question nowadays is always about profits and commercial growth .
28 ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough .
29 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 .
30 A short statement of the definition would be this : grammar deals with closed system choices which may be between items ( this , that , he , she , we ) or between categories ( singular , plural ; past , present , future ) ; lexis is concerned with open set choices , which are always between items ( chair , bench , seat , stool ) .
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