Example sentences of "[noun pl] are always [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 And it is now recognised that the great mountain chains are always found on the side of the continental plate facing the direction of its drift .
2 To look at large numbers of photographs of him , most of them unposed , is revealing : his eyes are always concentrating on someone or something , never bored or inattentively gazing .
3 The same is time for visits to schools and for the school quiz , where Catholic schools are always paired on the same side as Protestant ones in order to facilitate , again momentarily , some intercommunal co-operation .
4 In the latter case judgements are always made on the student 's overall profile of achievements and no attempt is made to alter marks on modules to produce artificially a higher average .
5 Steady-state forecasts are always based on some assumptions about social system behaviour .
6 But we now know that what discovered was individual genes and , as far as we know , individual genes are always handed on complete and intact .
7 In Sri Lanka the best specimens are always found on the shallower areas of the river-bed and by the water-pools by the river edges , where it is very muddy .
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