Example sentences of "was always [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a bottle of cough medicine in all the rooms , even outside in the shed and in a box buried in the vegetable patch . |
| 2 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |
| 3 | It so happened that erm Tom tha who I was working with , see he was on Shift er Shift F and er there was always a bit of rivalry between the various shifts as er , as to erm , you know , who did the better job and all this sort of thing |
| 4 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 5 | There was always a diversity of practice — as there still is — in religious attitudes , customs and modes of worship . |
| 6 | On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom . |
| 7 | Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train . |
| 8 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 9 | There was always a choice of tea with lemon , cool sweet moscato white wine or malvasia from Torrechiara , a village in the hills . |
| 10 | that was always a question of money , |
| 11 | A ramshackle despotism encourages irresponsibility ; there was always a chance of success and it was the weakest of the conspiracies — that of 1820 — which defeated the government . |
| 12 | It was a creepy spot with a strong pungent smell of garlic and there was always a feeling of tension and foreboding . |
| 13 | He was always a lot of fun and made me laugh . ’ |
| 14 | And although his father said : ‘ lt was thet boy o' mine ! ’ , the bent drill-furrow was always a source of leg-pulling between the two friendly rivals : ‘ You 're not a ‘ going to tell me a tale like thet , Walter Cater . |
| 15 | There was always an air of mystery about Browne , and he departed in 1926 amid hints of unsavouriness . |
| 16 | Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 17 | But even in the most matter-of-fact and determined plans there was always an element of unreality . |
| 18 | She was always the centre of activity . |
| 19 | For work which did not lead to examinations there was always the problem of assessment and standardizing that assessment between a number of teachers . |
| 20 | Although there was always the possibility of drought or flooding , the Nile seldom brought disaster to Egypt . |
| 21 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 22 | ‘ Jazz , to me , was always the music of individuality . |
| 23 | There was always the danger of curvature of the spine . |
| 24 | And there was always the shadow of illness , the occasional disturbing blankness , the spasms of physical distress . |
| 25 | The National Gallery asserts that it was always the intention of Kramar to donate the collection in its entirety to the Czechoslovak State . |
| 26 | There was always the risk of death from the flimsy machines … two pilots lost their lives in a crash just yards from the airfield … now they 're immortalised on the stone bridge overlooking the meadow . |
| 27 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |