Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] always [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The landowners , like the land-holders or Gamoroi of Syracuse , were a feudal nobility who were not always on easy terms with their kings . |
| 2 | Popes were not always above pawning their tiaras . |
| 3 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 4 | Surely the English and French were nearly always at war in those days . ’ |
| 5 | The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way . |
| 6 | It was nonchalant in its dealings with other cats , disdainfully ignoring the usual status battles , which were nearly always between males or between females — there was little social fighting across the genders . |
| 7 | In the evenings there was sometimes singing on deck to the accompaniment of a lute , and sorrowful music it was too , because the songs were nearly always about broken hearts , unrequited love , or dear ones lost at sea . |
| 8 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 9 | The Clash were n't always into combat fatigues . |
| 10 | " You were n't always in a gym tunic . |
| 11 | Folk were n't always like their words . |
| 12 | But they were n't always like that . |
| 13 | Except in the Central Province , Europeans were almost always in a minority . |
| 14 | ‘ Our family did n't exactly come from the wrong side of the tracks , but we were certainly always within sound of the train whistles . ’ |
| 15 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 16 | But unrealized potential was exploited as well as people and European economic intervention was not always at the expense of the non-European . |
| 17 | But the interior meant less — though it was not always to be so — than the grounds , the lake , the woods . |
| 18 | The advice they gave was not always to the sovereign 's liking as the famous conflicts between James I and Chief Justice Coke showed . |
| 19 | Gooch was not always to convincing a figure . |
| 20 | His mother and father say they know their son was a bit of a wheeler and dealer , and was not always on the right side of the law , but they say he did n't deserve to die in this way . |
| 21 | There was even the suggestion that it was in the nature of God 's goodness that there would be a cure for every disease , an optimism that was not always in the best interests of physicians to share . |
| 22 | No , no , you said that it was , you said that because it was not always in there maybe because the socket 's too shallow |
| 23 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 24 | At the time Joe Maitland was involved in some dubious dealing and his buying was not always from legitimate sources . |
| 25 | But it was not always like this . |
| 26 | Of course , it was not always like that . |
| 27 | It was not always like that and it need not be like that now . ’ |
| 28 | The loft was nearly always above the stable . ’ |
| 29 | It was played incessantly on the radio and at least once at every dance I went to , and the haunting melody was nearly always in my mind . |
| 30 | Paul thought her resistance hysterical , and was firm ; soon it was as always between them , except that Dinah 's face was suffused with blushes ; it was like bedding with him in public . |