Example sentences of "be always [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection
2 Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better .
3 Bans on parades are always seen as a sign of weakness , and as such have frequently given militant Protestants a chance to show , by defying the bans , that they will not be a party to any ‘ sell-out ’ .
4 These two are always concurrent aspects of the same process , and are always united in a subject 's mode of becoming .
5 Nevertheless we are always faced with a contradiction between rates of deposition and the known thickness of rock for a particular period of geological time .
6 ‘ With regard to positioning , swings are always placed in a corner , so children ca n't run in their path — most playground accidents involve swings .
7 This is why union meetings and Labour Party meetings are always conducted in a haze of smoke — or were , until my local party banned it .
8 In the version with dependent parameters , once Bacon has found a form of law relating two inputs while others have particular settings , it will expect that these two are always related by a law of the same form in which only the values of c and k vary .
9 Moreover , disc junkies are said to spend hours happily bending over and going through the layers of CDs , are always hunting for a bargain and collectable item , and seldom believe in paying the full listed price .
10 They may also be interspersed among them or precede them , or follow them ; but they are always integrated into a conversation considered as a complete linguistic interaction ’ ( Abercrombie : 72:55–59 ) .
11 Whether we are talking about Pascal 's wager or Newman 's venture , we are always talking about a commitment made after weighing evidence .
12 You are always supervised by a guide and the coach driver , so no harm can befall you .
13 It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive .
14 Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment .
15 The attempts to enter ‘ Europe ’ in 1961 , 1967 , and finally in 1973 were always accompanied by a sense of economic weakness and the perils of isolation .
16 From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them .
17 You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense .
18 Her satire , however , is always underpinned by an awareness of women 's vulnerability .
19 You know Matilda is always looking for a reason to punish you . ’
20 An SSR is always generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN .
21 An SSR is always generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN .
22 The Warrant , although used by a company , is always granted to an individual — which , in the case of Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , is Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive .
23 That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says .
24 Mettwurst is similar to Teewurst but is always made from a mixture of pork and beef , is very smoky and often contains paprika to give it a more spicy flavour .
25 Our dog is our constant walking companion and is always kept on a lead .
26 Thus , for one group of subjects , A is followed on some trials by both primary and conditioned reinforcement whereas on other trials there is no reinforcer at all ; for the other group , stimulus A is always followed by a reinforcer of some sort .
27 Cos probability is always expressed as a fraction .
28 Gunningham concluded that the acts only reflected the types of control which were economically convenient to industry , and that ‘ since strict enforcement of more severe legislation would attack the very root of capitalism … then any compromise between alternative policies and views is always struck within an area which does not threaten these interests ’ ( Gunningham 1974 : 83 ) .
29 Such knowledge is always centred in a self even though it is outward looking , searching for power and control of what is other to it .
30 It is the same for all the inherently restrictive adjectives ; inevitably , an adjective which is always used as a way of selecting restrictively from a set of items present in the mind of the speaker is liable to be thought of as a means of identifying an entity .
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