Example sentences of "[verb] always to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 2 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 3 | This needs always to be stressed . |
| 4 | ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone . |
| 5 | The transparent ‘ honesty ’ with which he will say good and bad about the people he 's worked with and around has always to be taken as having a ‘ point of view ’ ; that ‘ point of view ’ is governed by what Niki is looking for at any particular moment . |
| 6 | This last has always to be measured in terms of numbers , and can take no account of degree of motivation . |
| 7 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 8 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 9 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 10 | She seemed always to be squinting into the sun , or shielding her face with her hand , or hidden by a straw hat or something . |
| 11 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 12 | Ask him if he intends always to be faithful , and you 've get a 99.9 per cent change of him saying yes . |
| 13 | It 's a question of we were told always to be brief , it has to be brief , you ca n't say everything . |
| 14 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 15 | For example , foot , took , shook , look have all been attested as alternating between [ ? ] and [ ü ] , while soot , cook , book , hook seem always to be pronounced with [ ü ] . |
| 16 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 17 | There is bound always to be a considerable vested interest in the status quo , particularly amongst the most entrenched and powerful individuals in any institution : the way things are generally suits them well enough . |
| 18 | ‘ She seems always to be on the tramp these days . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But see to it that you do n't go too far , and try always to be in the house when you think you might be needed . ’ |
| 20 | As though he had not tried always to be God 's knight , and do the church clean service . |
| 21 | We 've always to be better like , that 's why they 're sitting fourth or fifth in the league . |
| 22 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 23 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 24 | Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point . |
| 25 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 26 | Marriage had always to be delayed until a suitable standing was achieved among middle-class and respectable poor ( Macfarlane 1986 ) . |
| 27 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 28 | It seems that femininity had always to be ‘ cultivated , achieved and preserved , while masculinity could be left to look after itself ’ . |
| 29 | So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to , or away from , each other . |
| 30 | ‘ Wherever you are and in whatever circumstances you find yourself , strive always to be a lover , and a passionate lover at that . |