Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] always [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jews were always prone to irrational guilt ; and perhaps especially now . |
| 2 | Shrewd military gentlemen were always aware of political realities , and upon entry some already had promotion in mind . |
| 3 | Further analysis according to the treatment administered indicated that the mean fundic argyrophil cell densities were always higher in MEN 1 than in sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients , whatever the treatment , but the difference was never significant ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 4 | Not that the natives were always hostile in intent or capability . |
| 5 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 6 | Railways were also built on Antigua , Barbados , Haiti , and Trinidad , but stations were always rudimentary on these islands . |
| 7 | The barons were always keen for a bit of booty , so our invasion of France was fully supported . ’ |
| 8 | Digital workers were always good for a car loan or a mortgage , perceived as being in secure , well-paid jobs . |
| 9 | Dealers ' young girlfriends were always impressed by a visit to Hard Rock Cafe . |
| 10 | QPR manager Gerry Francis will be looking for consistency and said : ‘ Rangers were always capable of beating the teams at the top one week and losing to the bottom side the next . |
| 11 | Definitions were always crucial in this debate , and the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility in its submission to Williams made a useful contribution to clarifying the distinctions between terms like eroticism , pornography , and obscenity : |
| 12 | CCO was responsible for obtaining final approval of the force commander 's plan from the Chiefs of Staff Committee of which he was a member , and the plans were always subject to the naval Commander-in-Chief 's blessing for no major dispositions of ships were made without his say-so . |
| 13 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 14 | She was a dark , tinker-looking woman who talked in a wheedling , laughing , low-pitched whine ; her hands were always black with earth from dealing with potatoes . |
| 15 | The nuts were always available for the little animals but we watched intently as the farmer poured the milk into the buckets and the calves started to drink . |
| 16 | But , then , men were always blind to a woman 's wiles . |
| 17 | The men were always conspicuous by their absence until shortly before the pubs were due to open . |
| 18 | And men were always resentful about their wives getting into anything . |
| 19 | He and his children were always grateful to ‘ Nat ’ ( whose successor as Principal was Dr Marsh ) for many kindnesses over the years . |
| 20 | He and his children were always grateful to ‘ Nat ’ ( whose successor as Principal was Dr Marsh ) for many kindnesses over the years . |
| 21 | ‘ I grew up listening to jazz , ’ explains Meier , ‘ because the Swiss charts were always full of silly songs . ’ |
| 22 | Although the Prophet Muhammad forbade castration , eunuchs were always common in Muslim society and because of their sterility were considered free of the taint of sexuality . |
| 23 | The system also perpetuated the concept of the code of honour , in which the strong defended the weak against oppressors , and the highest rulers were always benevolent towards their vassals . |
| 24 | But the political and military efficacy of the pacts was always open to doubt . |
| 25 | The Romans were always good at finding a sheltered and beautiful site and it was they who first settled here . |