Example sentences of "always at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention . |
| 2 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 3 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 4 | The fashionable dress varies , as do the fashionable drugs , but there are always at least two problems for society to deal with : the fact that these events are associated with the consumption of illegal and often dangerous drugs ; and the noise they make . |
| 5 | Politicians are always at their most vulnerable when they believe their own propaganda . |
| 6 | A free country in a free world is always at risk from high winds and rough seas . |
| 7 | With the fedayeen , love always at once complicates and simplifies the narrative . |
| 8 | Always at the end , they took refuge in some single statement that they repeated again and again . |
| 9 | Always at the Bidding Prayers mention was made of me and my Christian community at home and prayers were offered for them . |
| 10 | The latest was always at a premium . |
| 11 | It is always at the mercy of the people who design and use it . |
| 12 | He just said that she was n't always at that address . |
| 13 | But always at the back of my mind there was the memory of Jordi , his knife , his smile , his helpless shrug . |
| 14 | Always at the end of any love affair I had wondered if there would ever be another , and there always had been . |
| 15 | Bach 's music is almost always at the pulse of a heartbeat . |
| 16 | The moral connotation was accentuated by the always at least implicit use of the term to contest , to resist contemporary claims of state . |
| 17 | No matter how the path of A wriggles on the plane , this calculation will be applicable provided that : ( a ) The line is always at right angles to the path . |
| 18 | Curious , how sea-birds do not sing , but moan and shriek , always at war or in pain . |
| 19 | Buy them there , often at half price , and almost always at a discount . |
| 20 | In the Indian as in the Near Eastern traditions , the theistic structure is one which suggests the existence of a single supreme being , under whom many other divine forces may operate , but always at a lesser level to the one ‘ God ’ under whose control they ultimately stand . |
| 21 | Of particular interest here are the minority of notably active older people , like the man whose ‘ great hobby is making toys for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren ; ’ or the amateur painter always at his easel ‘ if the light is good enough ; ’ or the old sailor , disabled for fifty years , yet ‘ a very contented old man ’ , who spent his time cooking , cleaning , and reading ‘ either novels or the newspaper . ’ |
| 22 | When I was a boy , God was always at home . |
| 23 | The animal and vegetal poles define the main axis of the embryo and the first two cleavages are parallel to it while the third is always at right angles to it . |
| 24 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
| 25 | the foundation of ‘ a small multi-disciplinary central policy review staff in the Cabinet Office ’ to help formulate and sustain a clearer overall strategy for the administration as a whole , for ‘ governments are always at the same risk of losing sight of the need to consider the totality of their current policies in relation to their longer-term objectives ’ . |
| 26 | For as the carriage was always at the front or back , it could be kept private from the rest of the train . |
| 27 | As a young policewoman interviewed as part of a recent study on Merseyside 's police said , ‘ It 's always at the back of your mind , you just ca n't get rid of it . |
| 28 | All external things are beyond a man 's absolute control — stronger men in greater numbers may thwart any aim , at any moment disaster can intervene , fortune is always fickle , and death is always at hand . |
| 29 | Gallacher was a renegade , a prototype of the Scottish Babylonian , a skilful but troublesome footballer always at war with the world and perpetually trying to be ‘ gallus ’ . |
| 30 | This factor is always at the back of the minds of today 's senior men of science ; in fact many of them returned to Germany from studies or refuges abroad to rebuild the system . |