Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] always [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The junior adventure story has always had to reconcile two contrasting points . |
| 2 | The Department has always sought to provide students with a knowledge of those areas most relevant to the present and future needs of the modern accountant . |
| 3 | The Bush administration has always liked to say that Eastern Europe holds a special place in its heart ; Americans love the praise heaped on them in Washington when East European heroes like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel come to call . |
| 4 | The Jockey Club has always declined to give a reason for its suddenly being seen as performance-affecting , saying only : ‘ Our list is being updated all the time . ’ |
| 5 | And everyone reckoned it was the album that Talk Talk had always wanted to make . |
| 6 | As Edward Hulmes quoted in his book in this series , Education and Cultural Diversity : The great teachers of religion have always had to get rid of the useless lumber which accumulates in its progress — the rigid dogmatism , the narrow legalism , the mechanical rites , the silly superstitions which may become a substitute for religious life . |
| 7 | The pub has always had to tread a difficult tightrope in reconciling its social function , as a ‘ house ’ for the public , with its commercial function as a retail shop . |
| 8 | Older folk will tell you that it was ever thus ; that Irish rugby has always had to contend with the primacy of gaelic games . |
| 9 | It was a precaution any lender had always had to take . |
| 10 | It 's daft , it says a girl 's always got to wear grey if she works behind a counter or in a business 'ouse or as an 'otel clerk . |
| 11 | Tom Jones 's Welsh wife has always chosen to remain very much in the background during his successful and extrovert career . |
| 12 | John Thorne of Macintyre says the organisation has always tried to show that disabled people may not be capable of some everyday things , but they can usually show their skills and creativity in other ways . |
| 13 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 14 | But generally speaking the ideal has always tended to accentuate the gap between the clerical world view and the lay world view within catholicism . |
| 15 | ( Every man has always wanted to marry his mother , before and since Oedipus . ) |
| 16 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |
| 17 | The Government has always attempted to increase the choice in housing . |
| 18 | Rugby league 's media coverage has reached saturation point while rugby union has always struggled to maintain a constant high profile among both the media and the public . |
| 19 | Generally speaking , there is evidence that the church has always tended to support the hegemony of the state qua state . |
| 20 | The best way of saying what Christianity believes about the incarnation is to look at three views which the Church has always refused to accept since the earliest times . |
| 21 | The Christian Church has always refused to accept this idea . |
| 22 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 23 | Waqar has always preferred to pitch well up , even before the new bouncer restriction , giving the ball a chance to swing over the greater distance . |
| 24 | The Swedish star has always wanted to play in this country and is desperate to stay . |
| 25 | Well it may be of course that that kind of thing has always tended to happen gather of society skirmishing goes on and young men are expected to go and find very often |
| 26 | Moreover , since teachers usually travel free , there is a sneaking suspicion that many exotic trips owe their genesis less to the intrinsic fascination of the flora and fauna than to the fact that the geography master has always wanted to visit Thailand . |
| 27 | Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future . |
| 28 | But the Palace has always refused to admit it until yesterday . |
| 29 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , for me the house had always seemed to stand a little aloof , and as well as a respectful reserve I felt still the restriction of a child in the company of old people : ‘ Not too much noise , dear , because … |