Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] always [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be pointed out that they were nearly always pressed into the disc at the time of manufacture , not pasted on afterwards ; so the paper and inks had to be able to withstand high temperatures . |
| 2 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 3 | It was nearly always organised by a government , although some torturers acted on their own initiatives . |
| 4 | In the writer 's experience of recording the practices of old farm horsemen the frog 's or toad 's bone was nearly always linked with the jading of a horse , and they used the repellent substances with the bone , which was either powdered or whole , in this practice . |
| 5 | Whether the arrogance of the rich toward intellectuals of a lower class is considered an economic issue may be argued ; however , the belief that satire was almost always used in the service of the rich is not tenable . |