Example sentences of "[be] always [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electors are always prepared to criticise the Government in answer to pollsters ' questions , but when the same individuals arrive at the polling booth they simply can not bring themselves to vote Labour into power . |
| 2 | All intending applicants for admission to the Faculty of Divinity are always welcome to visit the Faculty for a discussion with a member of staff . |
| 3 | Scientists are always reluctant to use the word ’ breakthrough . ’ |
| 4 | With every player in the Whaddon team a potential striker , we tend to concentrate on defence but are always ready to spot the half chance to score a breakaway goal . |
| 5 | To equate the will of the people with the will of the majority may often be a justifiable piece of political shorthand ; but those in a minority , whether it be on a particular issue or in a more long-term and fundamental way , are always entitled to remind the rest of society that they too are part of " the people " . |
| 6 | The authorities were always prompt to support the Mufti and the religious sheikhs on a thing like this . |
| 7 | Currie were not helped by injuries to Darren Clarke and Ian Russell , who hobbled from the field in the second-half , but they were always prepared to run the ball and were enterprising in everything they did . |
| 8 | When he was in Vienna he had contact with the followers of Freud and Adler , and he found that even when a fact appeared to contradict their theories , they were always able to turn the fact around so that it could be taken as another example to prove their theory . |
| 9 | It is always good to open the season with a Strauss . ’ |
| 10 | When recording dialogues , drills etc. , it is always good to introduce the recording by stating what it is , date , etc . |
| 11 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 12 | Of the plays , Macbeth appears to have received his greatest attention , and , in 1745 , while still in his thirties and making his literary way , he produced his ‘ Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth ’ , which begins : ‘ In order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age and the opinions of his contemporaries . ’ |
| 13 | It is always preferable to have the rig nearer the wave rather than vice versa . |
| 14 | The first thing that he obviously ma , was made aware of , was that the Lord Jesus is always ready to meet the need of a seeking soul . |
| 15 | He is always ready to meet the need of a seeking soul . |
| 16 | It is always advisable to have the mare and foal checked over by your veterinary surgeon during the first day of life . |
| 17 | It is always difficult estimating the room you will need unless you are having the greenhouse built for a specific purpose . |
| 18 | For example , the ‘ model ’ pupil is one who is always eager to follow the teacher 's line of instruction and is never bolshy or bored ! |
| 19 | It is always wise to question the normality of embryos developing from superovulated eggs and to use the appropriate criteria under study to compare them with naturally ovulated eggs . |
| 20 | But i it 's always nice to see the article I think . |
| 21 | It 's always essential to view the ridge you 've just conquered , for the serious purpose of hugging yourself with glee , and a wonderful view of The Grey Corries can be savoured from the war memorial on the A82 north of Spean Bridge . |
| 22 | The government in particular was always anxious to give the appearance of doing something . |
| 23 | He was always keen to discuss the world news , especially the news from Britain , but he found few takers that night . |
| 24 | He was always ready to flout the company 's regulations , failing to register two alternative versions of his new sterling ( Britannia ) mark , and was criticized by the company for failing to submit plate for assay and hallmarking in 1717 . |
| 25 | Although each of his books has a compact plot and a central , young hero , he was always ready to shift the point of vision from this hero . |
| 26 | Whatever the style , Matcham was always prepared to bend the architecture to satisfy both the sight-lines and the all-important connection of performer to audience : tier fronts slope down towards boxes which frame the proscenium arch and , as an architectural ensemble , draw out rather than distance the performer . |
| 27 | This was typical of Stirling , who was always prepared to bear the risk himself . |
| 28 | At any rate , a reader might find these themes in the poem if he wished to , and Eliot was always prepared to concede the possibility of such meanings when they were discovered . |
| 29 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now acknowledge that a system based on the highest bid was always likely to undermine the quality and variety of British television ? |