Example sentences of "[be] always [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision . |
| 2 | It is a tendentious point , since the convention is that treaties are always signed by the executive . |
| 3 | Major capital expenditures are always considered by the Board . |
| 4 | Defeats were always caused by the plot : The Plot , the mo'amera , the complot , undefinable and ubiquitous , a conspiracy of treachery in which a foreign hand — Syrian , Palestinian , Israeli , American , French , Libyan , Iranian — was always involved . |
| 5 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 6 | In Great Britain change was later and perhaps less systematic ; but by the reign of George III British ambassadors were always provided by the government with a secretary of embassy , while by the later 1780s the more important legations were also being included in this arrangement . |
| 7 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Sean is always seen by the public as the real James Bond , ’ said a studio executive . |
| 9 | The decision as to whether or not to proceed is always made by the originator , thus allowing for his or her growth . |
| 10 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 11 | ( e ) Leasehold property When your client is buying a leasehold property in a case where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the licence ( which is always prepared by the lessor 's solicitor , who should submit the draft to you for your approval ) may require your client 's execution of a counterpart of the licence . |
| 12 | At least one grammarian is of the opinion that the bare infinitive can also be used in this type of context : The active voice is always followed by the infinitive without to . |
| 13 | The attitude of staff is always conditioned by the lead from the top and if cleaning is not regarded as a serious requirement at this level this attitude is quickly communicated to all levels with inevitable results . |
| 14 | In the police this desire for a clearly defined world of order derives from an implicit understanding that control of social behaviour is always surrounded by the dirt of structural ambivalence . |
| 15 | I was always fascinated by the effect of the sustain pedal — you know , the way you can run one note into another , something like a harp sound . |
| 16 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 17 | I was always attracted by the lifestyle of a nun , particularly that of a contemplative . |
| 18 | The powerful notion of the UK as the workshop of the world was always accompanied by the exhortation ‘ export or die ’ or , in other words , ‘ export manufactured goods or be unable to afford to buy imported food ’ . |