Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plea was always followed by laughter . |
| 2 | The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce . |
| 3 | He loved his sister , but this love was always overlaid with a trace of anxiety . |
| 4 | The British challenge was always expected to be spearheaded by McRae 's Subaru Legacy , but Wilson confounded the pundits by snatching fifth place overall — four seconds behind his domestic rival . |
| 5 | His peaked cap was always bent at the most killing angle , his flying boots a bit dirty and his leather jacket perennially open . |
| 6 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |
| 7 | Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established . |
| 8 | In the Mughal court great importance was always given to small details of protocol and privilege : the colour of a turban , the number of jewels in a noble 's dagger , the place he was assigned in the Red Fort : all these things had significance as subtle indicators to an omrah 's place in the ranking of the empire . |
| 9 | Initial training was always provided on a one-to-one basis because workers were recruited at different times to perform tasks of varying types . |
| 10 | Historically , Newcastle as the regional capital was always governed with a concern for style and consumption ( see Byrne , forthcoming ) , but this is now crucial in what were totally industrial locations . |
| 11 | The six-cylinder Healey was always known as one of the bigger-engined he-man British sports cars of its generation ; the Cobra , with its lightweight , cast-iron ‘ small-block ’ Ford V8 , the classic example of the adage ‘ there 's no substitute for cubic inches . ’ |
| 12 | A second reason for flexibility was even more fundamental : for all its importance , the Algerian crisis was always subordinated in de Gaulle 's mind to the larger issue of French power and prestige . |
| 13 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 14 | The Queen 's own saloon was always kept in special care at an equable temperature . |
| 15 | Blakeney Upper Mill was always used as a corn mill . |
| 16 | For many years the Robin Hood in Upper Halling was always known as " The Shant " . |
| 17 | The passage includes a section with the words : ‘ The floating pier was always packed with people , anxious to spend a day away from Liverpool 's heavily polluted air . ’ |
| 18 | Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 19 | ‘ Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |