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

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1 Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner .
2 In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words .
3 Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey .
4 Nor were the Russians always spoiling for a fight .
5 For many years the Government offered an annual award of 10000 Belgian francs for research into sexually transmitted diseases , but even this has been discontinued , perhaps because the award always went to a foreigner .
6 Meetings always begin with a parade and Brownies learn animal stories as well as crafts and outdoor skills .
7 As a result , Graham always sleeps in a cot by his parents ' bed .
8 The social workers always worked as a team and whenever we met a roomful of people arrived .
9 Williams always wrote in a way which deserves the label of ‘ political ’ in the sense in which that term is used by Cleaver ( 1979 ) .
10 On borrowing Mr Kinnock seems not to realise that borrowing always increases during a recession .
11 Fred would offer to cook the meal and even wash the baby but Carrie always declined with a smile and a determined shake of her head .
12 His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity .
13 Empirical investigation always deals with a sample of a phenomenon , never a fully enumerated population .
14 If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse .
15 This scientific attitude did not by any means always lead to a denial of the reality of God ; but it did not encourage the anticipation that God would actually intervene in the ordinary course of events ; nor , when faced with a strange or unexpected occurrence , would it immediately turn to God as the only possible explanation .
16 Make it a habit always to go to a lecture or a meeting with a pen and paper and take notes .
17 What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard .
18 Moreover , the established theory always sits in a position of political and intellectual prominence as the mainstream perspective supposedly making sense of British politics as a whole .
19 Yes you could do but the point is the , it 's where a person injects , a drug addict always injects into a vein so therefore they get these pin marks over veins , not necessarily , the veins go between fingers and toes and wherever , but they go into a vein where the diabetic goes into the muscle , into the arms , round the stomach area or the thigh .
20 Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again .
21 A camera always looks at a scene from a particular point of view .
22 This is because the Form program always operates from a swatch of this size .
23 COMMUNITY cooperation always ended in a party , be it a barn-raising , as in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , or the annual distribution of porcine largesse at pigkilling time described by Flora Thomson in Lark Rise to Candleford .
24 He ached all over , and felt the revulsion that sex without affection always left like a hangover inside him .
25 Provision of unlimited money undermines incentives for greater efficiency which is why nationalised industries always run at a loss .
26 No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game .
27 According to Helmholtz , the free energy F in a system always tends towards a minimum .
28 Too heavy And then there 's Vera and Jack Duckworth their barmy battles always make for a Punch and Judy-styled double act .
29 Yeah , well John always swore by a diet whether he I do n't know .
30 Margaret always hoped for a career in University .
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