Example sentences of "[conj] [be] always [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well that 's how these places are any way , all you do , disco 's and that are always the same , you got women dancing round their handbags , Tracy and Stacy and all those |
| 2 | And , in whichever case , are these questions and answers ( to the whistler or the mate ) or are they confirmations of something that is always the same thing ( the bird 's own presence , his belonging to this species , this sex , this territory ) ? |
| 3 | In a kidnap case that is always the most dangerous phase . |
| 4 | Cecilia sat in her comfortable drawing room on the sofa-bed that was always a sofa and never a bed — ‘ But you 've got five bedrooms , Ma , ’ said Tina who had her eye on it — and turned on the television at twenty seconds to six . |
| 5 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 6 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 7 | Comedy produced ‘ hearty laughter ’ , what James Agee was later to describe as ‘ laughter as violent and steady and deafening as standing under a waterfall ’ , and it was the sound of this laughter drifting through open doors that was always the best advertisement for the movies . |
| 8 | The shallow bays may be a degree or two warmer , and are always the first place to look in the early days , but the deeps will stay cold until real strength returns to the sun . |
| 9 | Canadian whisky is always distilled in the patent still and is always a blend . |
| 10 | Contemporary reasons for continuing to build large barns included the view that grain was better housed in barns than in ricks and was always a hand to be threshed , while the cost of thatching ricks was avoided and savings were made by avoiding the double-handling generated by moving ricks to the barn for threshing . |
| 11 | The association with Lancashire lasted until 1986 and was always a happy one , for he was enormously popular with the fans and with his team-mates . |
| 12 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 13 | He had money and was always a bit of a dilettante . |
| 14 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 15 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 16 | Bremner was never a mercenary player , but he believed implicitly in player power and was always the dressing-room shop steward , demanding , hustling and manipulating until the Leeds United board capitulated . |
| 17 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 18 | In my younger days the Church was the very heart of the community , and was always the place to bump into friends and family . |
| 19 | As such , the subject is never disembodied but is always a body . |
| 20 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 21 | Keener has little technical background , but was always a record nut , having started collecting at the age of five or six . |
| 22 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |
| 23 | As is always the case with Roman portraiture , such images captured the subject 's social class and preoccupations . |
| 24 | Yet , as is always the case the results sound quite different when directed from the keyboard . |
| 25 | Agrippina is , above all , a humorous opera and , as is always the case with Handel , contains a huge amount of first-rate music . |
| 26 | As is always the case with the privilege against self-incrimination , the greater the fraud or other wrongdoing of the person claiming the privilege , the greater , it is said , is his need for protection . |
| 27 | As is always the case when a person wants something and ca n't have it , her frustration merely increased her desire . |
| 28 | As far as the main professional accounting bodies are concerned , this Guidance is definitive but , as is always the case in the public sector , the Government also has a say . |
| 29 | In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume . |
| 30 | This last texture represents the clef arrangement of the typical French five-part string ensemble , although as is always the case in Lully 's ballet scores , the parts are unlabelled . |