Example sentences of "[noun prp] was always [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
2 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
3 | Saturday was always the most tiring day for Agnes . |
4 | Friday was always a busy day . |
5 | Of the old forest cantons , Uri was always the leader in policies of expansion over the Gotthard into the Ticino . |
6 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
7 | Deane was always a threat and two minutes before half-time he claimed his second when he turned in a low cross from Barnes . |
8 | Mind you , Hugh was always a bit different from the rest of us . |
9 | There , Eva was always a great favourite and able to assume leadership easily . |
10 | The road through it to Exeter was always a busy and important highway , and the Honiton Turnpike Trust , set up in 1753 , was one of the first in Devon . |
11 | ‘ Jeffrey was always the one saying , ‘ Hey , man , do n't play so many notes ; you know , not everybody out there 's a guitar player . |
12 | Carl Leaburn was always a threat combining well up front with Alex Dyer . |
13 | Whereas in the past Northern Ireland was always the furthest point on the beach that the tide reached , and therefore the first point that it left , on this occasion we entered the recession later and weathered it better . |
14 | Yet Prague was always an international city , whose culture was dependent on native and external traditions alike . |
15 | Phil was always a fearless seaman , and I am a very cautious one . |
16 | Kate pointed out that Stephen was always a little on the silent side . |
17 | Each game went through at least thirty rugby balls , and Endill was always the one sent back to get some more . |
18 | Getting the slaves across the Atlantic was always a difficult problem for the Royal Africa Company and for all the other traders . |
19 | ‘ David Whitaker was always a very sweet man , very jokey about everything , while Mervyn was always so fussy . |
20 | Digital HDTV was always a threat , albeit in the long term . |
21 | Cliff was always a whole-hearted player and , with his carefully cultivated sideburns , was held in high regard by Palace fans . |
22 | Hong Kong was always a free-wheeling , highly materialistic city , with more than its full share of pirates and crooks . |
23 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
24 | Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight . |
25 | " Leonard was always a tease , " said Mrs Naulls , putting a purple jelly into her mouth . |
26 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
27 | Burton was always a great reader . |
28 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
29 | ‘ But quite honestly from the way she shone in the semi-finals , Sally was always the one who was going to win the gold medal . ’ |
30 | ‘ But quite honestly from the way she shone in the semi-finals , Sally was always the one who was going to win gold . ’ |