Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provincial spectacles were always on a much smaller scale since governors and wealthy patrons could never attempt to emulate the extravagant shows in Rome for fear of arousing the suspicious jealousy of the reigning Emperor . |
| 2 | And wounded animals were always at their most dangerous when cornered . |
| 3 | But Freud 's side-swipes were always worth watching . |
| 4 | Both parents were always at the beck and call of the general public . |
| 5 | Above : ‘ My parents were always in each other 's arms . |
| 6 | On scores , Colin Martlew 's 21–12 was the best that Merseyside could manage , and there was a 21–13 from Roy Lussey , but on the day , the visitors were always in command . |
| 7 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 8 | Eggs were always in short supply and I suppose the reason was that during the war we were not getting our usual supply from Denmark and the Low Countries , owing to the German occupation . |
| 9 | His gowns were always of softer material than the gowns of other ministers . |
| 10 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 11 | Plays were always in the afternoon , because of the daylight . |
| 12 | In and out of the camp Billy made sure that his camp and his model of the people 's pleasures were always in the public eye . |
| 13 | These differences were always in the same direction — more pronounced hormonal responses and more reporting of symptoms with porcine insulin . |
| 14 | Outside in The Cheese Market at the corner of Castle Street and Blue Boar Row , traders who paid no tolls were always to be found on the same spot each Market Day . |
| 15 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps they were bored too , but whatever the reason the Met girls were always in trouble for one reason or another . |
| 17 | And I ha I was n't very familiar with Nottingham , then , but I went and erm we crossed this park , and it was at a big house , there , tailors were always in rather out of the way places , and er he 'd just got fixed up . |
| 18 | Doctors were always in some way or other community leaders , much more so than lawyers or bankers . |
| 19 | But my grandfather on my mother ; s side and my grandmother too both won military awards in the first war for bravery , so the oral traditions of both wars were always with us . |
| 20 | The emphasis of the SSAPs was always on standards for accounts showing a true and fair view ; indeed , very often the emphasis was on the accounts of PLCs . |
| 21 | Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand . |
| 22 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 23 | His preferences were always for medals and engraved gems , and miniatures by artists such as Giulio Clovio , who painted the celebrated ‘ Farnese Hours ’ for him . |
| 24 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 25 | But keep track he had to , for the sects were always at odds with each other and sometimes their differences spilled over into killings . |
| 26 | The rows were always over money and housework : " He 'd just go berserk till two or three in the morning , bawling and shouting , and I 'd just try to sit and hold his legs . |
| 27 | It insisted that men were always in positions of power . |
| 28 | Her boys were always in the throes of what she euphemistically called summer colic . |
| 29 | The odds were always against Oxford at Villa Park … trailing by a goal from the first leg United were desperate for a flying start … they were nearly grounded in the opening minutes by Dean Saunders … |
| 30 | The trade papers were always including references to experiments of this sort but it was obvious that these many initiatives came to very little . |