Example sentences of "always a [noun] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 2 | I should perhaps add for completeness sake that it was urged upon your Lordships that there was always a possibility of a leak to the prosecuting authorities of incriminating information disclosed by the defendants as a result of complying with the order and use being made , innocently , by the prosecution of such information , which , ex hypothesi , they had not themselves acquired . |
| 3 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 4 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 5 | But that John Lee , he was always a devil of a thing to put a handle on . |
| 6 | ‘ She was always a bit of a tomboy , yer sister , ’ Rab said . |
| 7 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 8 | It 's always a bit of a shock when you find your friends lack moral fibre . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But it 's always a bit of a blow to lose a head of chambers . ’ |
| 10 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 11 | He had money and was always a bit of a dilettante . |
| 12 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 13 | ‘ She was always a bit of a mystery to me ; her sons worshipped her — I 'm not so sure about Sara . |
| 14 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 15 | Always a bit of a loner , Basil here found an environment of people committed like himself . |
| 16 | Until the English Tourist Board introduced their classification schemes , choosing somewhere to stay was always a bit of a gamble . |
| 17 | ‘ She was always a defender of the down-and-out . ’ |
| 18 | It can be possible to acclimatize a specialised feeder to substitute foods although there is always a danger of a reluctance to feed deteriorating into anorexia and premature demise . |
| 19 | whether you 're dropping it on the putting the acid to the the alkal the the metal , the alkali , the base or the carbonate , the salt is always a salt of the acid . |
| 20 | It added , perhaps with some irony , that there was always a situation of the world market in fuel and that it was natural for the Commission to receive bids in response to its invitations to tender . |
| 21 | While information is not exactly power itself , it is always a condition of the exercise of power . |
| 22 | If there is always an element of the meaning of our sentences which is non-observational , then observation alone will not reveal the whole meaning . |
| 23 | I mean in other words we 'll now have a proper strategy the Vale of the White Horse , which was always an area of the county where the County Council services to the elderly was poorer than elsewhere . |
| 24 | always an opponent of the town clerk also now erm trying to cause problems . |