Example sentences of "are always [verb] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Most importantly , the first ( and indeed later ) sallies are always related to the framework erected by survey , scenario and plan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The deliberations of formal committee meetings are always recorded in the form of Minutes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision . |
| 14 | LM But natural beings are always living in the expectation or half-expectation of aggression . |
| 15 | It is a tendentious point , since the convention is that treaties are always signed by the executive . |
| 16 | Because a signature may be difficult to decipher , the sender 's name and title are always typed at the end of the letter . |
| 17 | But championships are always won at the front — just ask Alex Ferguson at Manchester United . |
| 18 | They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves . |
| 19 | These questions are never asked seriously , they are always taken in the form of amusement or conversationally . |
| 20 | Major capital expenditures are always considered by the Board . |
| 21 | And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift . |
| 22 | His musical examples are always drawn from the repertoire of this period . |
| 23 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |