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

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1 There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ .
2 Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner .
3 In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words .
4 Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey .
5 Nor were the Russians always spoiling for a fight .
6 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 .
7 Meetings always begin with a parade and Brownies learn animal stories as well as crafts and outdoor skills .
8 As a result , Graham always sleeps in a cot by his parents ' bed .
9 The social workers always worked as a team and whenever we met a roomful of people arrived .
10 Williams always wrote in a way which deserves the label of ‘ political ’ in the sense in which that term is used by Cleaver ( 1979 ) .
11 On borrowing Mr Kinnock seems not to realise that borrowing always increases during a recession .
12 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 .
13 His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity .
14 Empirical investigation always deals with a sample of a phenomenon , never a fully enumerated population .
15 Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Make it a habit always to go to a lecture or a meeting with a pen and paper and take notes .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Morale always rose after a struggle ; I would never have to go over the same ground again .
23 Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies .
24 A camera always looks at a scene from a particular point of view .
25 Scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument ; the better the argument , the stronger the scepticism it generates .
26 The conclusion is that with which we started ; scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument .
27 This is because the Form program always operates from a swatch of this size .
28 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 .
29 He ached all over , and felt the revulsion that sex without affection always left like a hangover inside him .
30 Provision of unlimited money undermines incentives for greater efficiency which is why nationalised industries always run at a loss .
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