Example sentences of "always to be " in BNC.

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1 If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation .
2 The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation .
3 But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity .
4 ‘ She seems always to be on the tramp these days . ’
5 Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war .
6 Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held .
7 People used always to be saying that about her .
8 And he reserved a ladder and a coil of rope , always to be ready .
9 In Cyprian 's conception of the church , it also followed that the bishop is the vehicle of sacramental order , and to be authentically Christian is always to be in communion with the catholic bishop .
10 Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly .
11 You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there .
12 It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous .
13 ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone .
14 The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different .
15 The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting .
16 He now grinned ; then looked from Elaine to Charles and said , ‘ You know , you two used always to be sitting like this whenever you got the chance .
17 That this has not always to be the case in religion is demonstrated by religions like Buddhism and Hinduism where laughter plays a big part .
18 ‘ Wherever you are and in whatever circumstances you find yourself , strive always to be a lover , and a passionate lover at that .
19 A great deal of inadequate and over-crowded housing has been removed , not always to be replaced by high-rise developments .
20 Outside in The Cheese Market at the corner of Castle Street and Blue Boar Row , traders who paid no tolls were always to be found on the same spot each Market Day .
21 Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point .
22 The purpose of this instruction is to eliminate the excess tension that is almost always to be found in the muscles of the neck .
23 In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something .
24 Are the renewables always to be the Cinderella option ?
25 They resented stern reminders not to speak German , to be polite and always , always to be grateful .
26 Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes .
27 My message therefore , boring but always to be heeded , is ‘ watch your credit control , say NO more often , ask for increased payments more often , use the reference bureaux more often , if in doubt say no — cash in the company is better than a lazy or non repaying loan . '
28 It is the nature of doubt always to be questioning , challenging , inquiring , cross-examining .
29 It was the sun 's messenger and therefore acted as a herald of peace and prosperity , always to be seen flying overhead when a new Emperor ascended the throne .
30 ‘ But see to it that you do n't go too far , and try always to be in the house when you think you might be needed . ’
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