Example sentences of "[be] always [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 2 | In the past they said men should n't be concerned about their looks and things , but it 's pretty obvious that they are , because boys are always looking in the mirror , and these days they have slicked-back hair and fancy clothes , and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 4 | Dominance struggles are always enacted in the den where the symbols of rank — proximity to owners , food , toys and access to warm resting areas — are to be found . |
| 5 | The deliberations of formal committee meetings are always recorded in the form of Minutes . |
| 6 | Individual points about style are always made in the context of a discussion of the feelings , attitudes or ideas that the text as a whole expresses , a discussion which is inevitably to a large extent intuitive and impressionistic . |
| 7 | Observation statements , then , are always made in the language of some theory and will be as precise as the theoretical or conceptual framework that they utilize is precise . |
| 8 | LM But natural beings are always living in the expectation or half-expectation of aggression . |
| 9 | These questions are never asked seriously , they are always taken in the form of amusement or conversationally . |
| 10 | The women 's meals were always served in the home of Sheikha Grandmother whether that home was a tent , an areesh , a bungalow , or , as it eventually proved , a palace . |
| 11 | In pantomime or musical comedy they might also be required to appear in production numbers with the rest of the company but true chorus dancers were always kept in the background . |
| 12 | Their parts were always written in the key of C , a ‘ crook ’ or detachable length of curved tube determining the key in which the instrument was set . |
| 13 | It may be an over-simplification , but imagine the improvement to our daily lives if everyone always understood everyone else , and it our speech and actions were always interpreted in the way we intended . |
| 14 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 15 | Gradually there arose the belief that speech is always represented in the hemisphere opposite the preferred hand . |
| 16 | Theory is always taught in the context of real-life applications , preferably drawn from examples to be found in industry . |
| 17 | Sometimes , a safety valve may be fitted into the boiler flow pipe ; a draincock is always fitted in the return . |
| 18 | the aggregation of node in our approach is always made in the context of symbolic identifiers ( see Figure 2 ) rather than record or card numbers . |
| 19 | An alert cat has fully-opened eyes and this is the condition that is always maintained in the presence of strangers , who are not entirely trusted by the cat . |
| 20 | When you do n't get the best ball of the day and you still get out , the tendency can be to try to satisfy yourself by claiming good intentions — if the attitude is that ‘ there are no excuses : then you accept responsibility and responsibility is always judged in the context of what , to repeat myself , you can call ‘ appropriate cricket . ’ |
| 21 | By this time , Edinburgh had emerged as the recognized centre of " the Female Question " ( as it is always known in the union literature ) . |
| 22 | The struggle for freedom of mind and spirit is always linked in the Bible with the embrace of God 's will for our lives . |
| 23 | Canadian whisky is always distilled in the patent still and is always a blend . |
| 24 | It is always running in the background as you work in other applications , ready to switch between applications or control a multitasking session . |
| 25 | • Madonna 's always believed in the importance of underwear — even going to far as to exhibit it outside her clothing . |
| 26 | It was the same burden Northumberland was always singing in the north , and Hotspur from whichever front of his double responsibility was occupying his immediate attention . |
| 27 | It is that is was always discussed in the context of cost within the business and cost to industry . |
| 28 | But breakfast was the exception and was always taken in the kitchen , although Melanie never found out why . |
| 29 | You 'd get bogged down and you could n't use the path and it was always overgrown in the summer . |
| 30 | The occasional black eye he had collected early on , when he was still at school , he had attributed to the fights he was always having in the playground , or on the street coming home . |