Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] always [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The provincial spectacles were always on a much smaller scale since governors and wealthy patrons could never attempt to emulate the extravagant shows in Rome for fear of arousing the suspicious jealousy of the reigning Emperor . |
2 | Both parents were always at the beck and call of the general public . |
3 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
4 | Plays were always in the afternoon , because of the daylight . |
5 | In and out of the camp Billy made sure that his camp and his model of the people 's pleasures were always in the public eye . |
6 | These differences were always in the same direction — more pronounced hormonal responses and more reporting of symptoms with porcine insulin . |
7 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |
8 | Her boys were always in the throes of what she euphemistically called summer colic . |