Example sentences of "be always a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're always a tower of strength . |
| 2 | Stephen and Marypen bought Fulford House for their family of three , and in particular their daughter Antonia needed land and stabling for her riding career — the horses are always a centre of interest for visitors . |
| 3 | The teens and twenties are always a time for questioning , evaluating , making up your own mind , finding your own sense of person . |
| 4 | This dominance of the political level ensured that the state and its policies were always an instrument of class rule . |
| 5 | During chemical reactions , there is always a dispersal of energy either from the chemical system to its surroundings or from the surroundings to the chemical system . |
| 6 | With the advent of quantum mechanics , we have come to recognize that events can not be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty . |
| 7 | They add : " In any case , there is always a degree of uncertainty about outcomes at the beginnings of a new initiative , when alternatives are imprecisely mapped out and staff are to be engaged in a process of critical reflection . |
| 8 | There is always a problem with education providing for skills in information technology . |
| 9 | Another effect of the variety of starting-points , in history , philosophy , literary studies , linguistics , aesthetics and social theory , as well as in sociology itself , is that there is always a problem of overlap with other distinct and still necessary disciplines . |
| 10 | There is always a problem of terminology and definitions . |
| 11 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 12 | Symbolism , which is always a relationship of evocation , is held in most studies to be a highly variable process which is dependent upon the social positioning of the interpreter and the context of interpretation . |
| 13 | The reason for this , continued James , is that ‘ the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without precedent , and for which no adequate previous rule exists ’ . |
| 14 | In practice it is always out of the question : there is always a residuum of unpredictability . |
| 15 | But again , there is always a residuum of unpredictability ; we can always opt to choose not to be influenced in the predicted direction . |
| 16 | There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission . |
| 17 | ‘ There is always a draught through glass . ’ |
| 18 | Whilst an announcement in the London Gazette is good notice to all persons who are not existing clients or creditors , it is always a question of fact as to whether persons who have had dealings with the firm have received sufficient notice of changes . |
| 19 | The data studied in discourse analysis is always a fragment of discourse and the discourse analyst always has to decide where the fragment begins and ends . |
| 20 | There is always a sense of reality and credibility in the accounts . |
| 21 | ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 22 | There is always a possibility of deceit or self-deception . |
| 23 | And there is always a risk of disease to replace the risk of injury . |
| 24 | If one person chooses to cause serious injury to another , it should be presumed that he or she realizes that there is always a risk of death , and such cases show a sufficiently wanton disregard for life as to warrant the label ‘ murder ’ if death results . |
| 25 | Profit retained is an addition to capital ; loss is always a loss of capital . |
| 26 | Profit retained is an addition to capital ; loss is always a loss of capital . |
| 27 | There is always a danger of order bias — people remember and therefore choose items near the beginning or end of a list . |
| 28 | there is always a danger of interviewer bias ; interviewers may be tempted to express agreement with the respondent to maintain rapport ; the interviewer 's opinion may be conveyed by dress , accent , pauses or voice inflection in the reading of questions , thus revealing boredom , surprise etc . |
| 29 | There is always a danger of overidentification with the people we study and to regard their problems as unique simply because the people themselves see it that way . |
| 30 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |