Example sentences of "[adv] always [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In politics the Conservatives were in power virtually throughout , though not necessarily always directly in office .
2 Even ‘ irony ’ is not always out of place , though it is beneficent .
3 He had always run Virgin with something of the paternalism of a nineteenth-century Lancashire mill-owner , believing himself to be mindful of the welfare of his staff , if not always fully in touch with the vicissitudes of their day-to-day existence , but certainly never tolerating any direct challenge to his authority .
4 One of us is nearly always away at weekends , so there would be a spare bed .
5 Yet it contains a contradiction , since the class-struggle , or more generally the struggle against oppression , is thought of as always visibly at work in history in a clearly timeless way .
6 The comedian Dom De Luise makes an amusing enough Wazir , but his singing ca n't hold a candle to Richard Van Allan 's and is n't always exactly in tune .
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