Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the syllabub , the fruit fool was almost always served in glasses or custard cups , although Susannah MacIver , an Edinburgh cookery teacher and author of an excellent little book called Cookery and Pastry , 5774 , directs that her gooseberry cream be served on an " asset " , the old Scots word for platter . |
| 2 | Whether the arrogance of the rich toward intellectuals of a lower class is considered an economic issue may be argued ; however , the belief that satire was almost always used in the service of the rich is not tenable . |
| 3 | In the writer 's experience of recording the practices of old farm horsemen the frog 's or toad 's bone was nearly always linked with the jading of a horse , and they used the repellent substances with the bone , which was either powdered or whole , in this practice . |
| 4 | Establishing an overt research role was therefore always going to be a task of sisyphean labour , but the sensitivity of the topic and location made it more difficult than is usual in ethnographic research . |
| 5 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |