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

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1 Benefits under a tax-approved company pension scheme are always limited by reference to earnings from the company .
2 Benefits under a tax-approved company pension scheme are always limited by reference to earnings from the company .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting .
6 One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male .
7 These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue .
8 The remaining weak-form words are all auxiliary verbs , which are always used in conjunction with ( or at least implying ) another ( ‘ full ’ ) verb .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Difficulties were always tempered by contact with people .
12 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 .
13 Remember that the relevant information set is always changing in line with business conditions .
14 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 .
15 The division of labour is always reflected in differentiation of status .
16 It is always embedded in some social form , in conventions such as letter writing , charters , catechisms , business styles , academic ‘ texts ’ etc. , and it is always learnt in relation to these uses in specific social conditions .
17 ‘ A star is someone who 's always acting in front of everybody .
18 ‘ An actor is someone who plays a role , tells a story , ’ he explains , ‘ and a star is someone who 's always acting in front of everybody .
19 Alexei was always taken by surprise by the Yek talent for blunt speaking , ‘ That being the case , ’ he said , ‘ I am surprised you have given your consent to your daughter 's betrothal to me . ’
20 Kyphi was always burnt after sunset for its effects were soporific and intoxicating .
21 During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it .
22 The administration was always discomposed by evidence of Masai unfaithfulness , reacting to it with pained surprise if not outright disbelief .
23 The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore .
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