Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right , and the funny thing was that people who were n't entirety certain they were right always argued much louder than other people , as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves . |
| 2 | It should be pointed out that they were nearly always pressed into the disc at the time of manufacture , not pasted on afterwards ; so the paper and inks had to be able to withstand high temperatures . |
| 3 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 4 | The few non-noble heads of German missions abroad were nearly always tucked away in very minor capitals far from Europe . |
| 5 | One surprising aspect of these responses was the way they were almost always followed or overlaid by a sense of satisfaction , even pleasure , at having documentary evidence to support particular explanations of racism , and particular ideological standpoints related to them . |
| 6 | Governors were almost always sent out from England rather than chosen from among the men on the spot . |
| 7 | Our survey suggested that , in the three districts studied , people on section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and those who were being discharged after at least six months in hospital were almost always included on care programmes , but for people being discharged from hospital after briefer admissions , for those who were being treated outside hospital and for elderly people with both functional and organic disorders , the decision to formulate a care programme was determined by particular considerations . |
| 8 | The more extreme flights of rhetoric we encountered were almost always associated with managerial detachment from the classroom . |
| 9 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 10 | He travelled around the County , staying at various homes where he was apparently always made welcome for the sake of his interesting tales and where he ‘ paid ’ for his keep by means of pencil sketches of his hosts . |
| 11 | Oh that was just always called the little house . |
| 12 | But but I shall never forget when he was like always spruced up to go snooker match snow white shirt ! |
| 13 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 14 | The Duke of Clarence was also always overspending . |
| 15 | It was thus in these early years and it was nearly always to remain so . |
| 16 | It was nearly always organised by a government , although some torturers acted on their own initiatives . |
| 17 | Said he was nearly always travelling . ’ |
| 18 | In the writer 's experience of recording the practices of old farm horsemen the frog 's or toad 's bone was nearly always linked with the jading of a horse , and they used the repellent substances with the bone , which was either powdered or whole , in this practice . |
| 19 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 20 | Like the syllabub , the fruit fool was almost always served in glasses or custard cups , although Susannah MacIver , an Edinburgh cookery teacher and author of an excellent little book called Cookery and Pastry , 5774 , directs that her gooseberry cream be served on an " asset " , the old Scots word for platter . |
| 21 | When the Authority intervened in the decisions of individual companies , it was almost always to insist on certain BBC-type standards , whether it was the retention of University Challenge or the compulsory broadcasting of the Queen 's Speech on Christmas Day . |
| 22 | Whether the arrogance of the rich toward intellectuals of a lower class is considered an economic issue may be argued ; however , the belief that satire was almost always used in the service of the rich is not tenable . |
| 23 | Establishing an overt research role was therefore always going to be a task of sisyphean labour , but the sensitivity of the topic and location made it more difficult than is usual in ethnographic research . |
| 24 | It was therefore always going to be a question of how many goals 'Mill were going to score . |