Example sentences of "be always [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 2 | Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it . |
| 3 | Benefits under a tax-approved company pension scheme are always limited by reference to earnings from the company . |
| 4 | Benefits under a tax-approved company pension scheme are always limited by reference to earnings from the company . |
| 5 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 6 | At the same time , they are always heard in relation to the basic framework or expected effect which lies behind them and which they are varying : they are substitutes for the ‘ correct ’ formulae ; they can thus excite but not disturb . |
| 7 | The amount of bone present in assemblages of prey , and the species representation , vary from predator to predator but are always biased with respect to the community from which they came . |
| 8 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 9 | One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male . |
| 10 | ( To be precise , there are four Humean conditions to satisfy , if we are to be sure that c caused e on some occasion , namely : c preceded e ; there was no intermediate event ; events like c are always followed by events like e in those conditions ; and we are in the habit of expecting the sequence . ) |
| 11 | These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue . |
| 12 | The cows are always milked by members of the family and they can usually spot mastitis in the first 24 hours . |
| 13 | The remaining weak-form words are all auxiliary verbs , which are always used in conjunction with ( or at least implying ) another ( ‘ full ’ ) verb . |
| 14 | No matter how often we tell people that a dog is for life , not just for Christmas , some are always abandoned within hours of being given as a present . ’ |
| 15 | Chief Superintendent Kevin Delaney , of the Metropolitan Police traffic division , said : ‘ Normally mouthpieces are always opened in front of the person being asked to take the breath test . |
| 16 | Special cards are always appreciated at times like these — my grandmother says that cards are her favourite part of the proceedings . |
| 17 | These were always printed on paper of a lurid colour — a different colour for each song — and illustrated with crude drawings of the events described . |
| 18 | Difficulties were always tempered by contact with people . |
| 19 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 20 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 21 | These binges were always followed by feelings of guilt and depression . |
| 22 | Carolyn recalls : ‘ We used to do midnight runs , we were always skimming around London on undercover operations in Diana 's Metro . ’ |
| 23 | No single attainment test is administered to all schools , and GCE and CSE examinations were always dogged by problems of comparability . |
| 24 | At St. Martin 's the Festivals were always celebrated at Evensong by a procession around the Church during the final hymn , when the four banners were carried . |
| 25 | My impatience and intolerance were always directed against things outside the company and Laura knew that . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal itself is , subject to limited exceptions , bound by its own previous decisions and is always bound by decisions of the House of Lords . |
| 27 | To the Chewong , disease is always explained in terms of one of the above-mentioned attributes being upset in some way , usually through the interference of a non-human being . |
| 28 | Remember that the relevant information set is always changing in line with business conditions . |
| 29 | It is by no means true that a rising tone is always used for questions in English ; it is quite usual , for example , to use a falling tone with questions beginning with one of the ‘ wh-question-words ’ like ‘ what ’ , ‘ which ’ , ‘ when ’ , etc . |
| 30 | For them , the uses of Creole are quite restricted : it is always used in conjunction with British English ( usually LE ) in a code-switching style , and has a limited set of functions . |