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

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1 People are n't always off work .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 To argue always for unfudgeability is to argue for form over substance with all the waste of capital that entails .
5 Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity .
6 Children are always for analysis , usually by their parents , they do n't usually come of their .
7 They 're always for sale .
8 It is always worth while covering both the pitot and static vents to prevent rain entering the systems .
9 IT IS always worth timing visits to the French Alps to avoid French school holidays .
10 Seed of biennials or short-lived perennials , such as foxgloves , are nearly always worth saving — but sow some now , and store the rest .
11 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 ’ .
12 One or two people who are always worth hearing if you can bear with me .
13 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 .
14 It is n't always about cost .
15 In the history of litigation in rock ‘ n ’ roll it is almost always about money .
16 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 .
17 And the conversations are n't always about tennis .
18 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 ) .
19 I know , if we ever fall out it 's always about family at Christmas .
20 ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough .
21 The behaviour that this requires ( e.g. plant closures , the use of environmentally damaging production processes ) will often be contrary to the interests of non-shareholder groups , but nearly always of advantage to the members ( with an exception sometimes arising in the take-over context ) .
22 Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports .
23 An exception is always of part of the thing granted , and only a thing that exists can be excepted ; a reservation is of a thing not in existence , but newly created or reserved out of land ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 12 , para 1529 ) .
24 That in the main was true but not always of course .
25 Erm s that 's my general s there 's no doubt that there are a great deal of activities there as always of course when one is spending a lot of new money quite rapidly , one has to monitor it very carefully to make sure that it 's being effectively spent , and I 'm sure the director and this committee will continue to do that .
26 This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload .
27 But it could always of course come in as an odd .
28 They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone .
29 The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way .
30 It always smells of pedantry , and not always of learning .
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