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

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1 In the past they said men should n't be concerned about their looks and things , but it 's pretty obvious that they are , because boys are always looking in the mirror , and these days they have slicked-back hair and fancy clothes , and that sort of thing .
2 If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving .
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 In consequence , when children die from neglect or are maltreated by their carers , questions are always asked about the role of the formal carers ; implicitly or explicitly , there is an assumption that formal care systems have in some way been deficient .
5 These two are always concurrent aspects of the same process , and are always united in a subject 's mode of becoming .
6 This can be expensive and you are always gambling with the possibility that the people who you want to hear your music wo n't come .
7 ‘ I 've never actually analysed this before , ’ he says , ‘ but I suppose I think of the guitar as the medium which makes the voice work , and so my guitar parts are always written around the vocal .
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 Most importantly , the first ( and indeed later ) sallies are always related to the framework erected by survey , scenario and plan .
12 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 .
13 Dominance struggles are always enacted in the den where the symbols of rank — proximity to owners , food , toys and access to warm resting areas — are to be found .
14 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 .
15 To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life .
16 The deliberations of formal committee meetings are always recorded in the form of Minutes .
17 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 ) .
18 In the latter case judgements are always made on the student 's overall profile of achievements and no attempt is made to alter marks on modules to produce artificially a higher average .
19 Individual points about style are always made in the context of a discussion of the feelings , attitudes or ideas that the text as a whole expresses , a discussion which is inevitably to a large extent intuitive and impressionistic .
20 Observation statements , then , are always made in the language of some theory and will be as precise as the theoretical or conceptual framework that they utilize is precise .
21 It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision .
22 LM But natural beings are always living in the expectation or half-expectation of aggression .
23 It is a tendentious point , since the convention is that treaties are always signed by the executive .
24 Because a signature may be difficult to decipher , the sender 's name and title are always typed at the end of the letter .
25 But championships are always won at the front — just ask Alex Ferguson at Manchester United .
26 Whether we are talking about Pascal 's wager or Newman 's venture , we are always talking about a commitment made after weighing evidence .
27 They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves .
28 These questions are never asked seriously , they are always taken in the form of amusement or conversationally .
29 Major capital expenditures are always considered by the Board .
30 Neither will you feel left out of the night life , because , again , the ship 's crew have special instructions to make sure that people travelling alone are always included in every activity .
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