Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] always [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stories , to my mind were always better in Bunty than in other comics , and this is probably why it has continued without merger , where others have failed . |
| 2 | The sinking stomach pains which heralded this loss were always welcome to me , and afterwards I would feel triumphantly clean . |
| 3 | ‘ I got a great reception but the club were always generous to me when I played and managed here . |
| 4 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 5 | Communication with a roving agent was always fraught with difficulties , but Leone was dilatory and displayed little sense of urgency as the new season approached : Giardini impulsively began to open up negotiations himself , resulting in an increasingly frenetic tone to the correspondence . |
| 6 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |
| 7 | The Soviets damaged their own case by , for example , crushing a brief workers ’ rising in East Berlin in June 1953 , and America , whose friendship was always essential to Churchill , was still in its McCarthyite period . |
| 8 | Federal law was always superior to Länder law and the Länder were restricted in many areas to carrying out the policies of the Bonn government . |
| 9 | Clausewitz , distantly pursued by Mr Pick , thought war was always subordinate to political will . |
| 10 | A place was always ready for it . |
| 11 | Wilson 's membership was always strongest among deck hands and weakest among catering staff and fishermen . |
| 12 | Grandma was always nice to me in her vague way . |
| 13 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 14 | They had a big hit around the time and the shop was always full of these kids who were really into that gay , shallow disco — stuff like ‘ The Hustle ’ . |
| 15 | This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be . |
| 16 | Both Randall and Boot were always modest about their achievement . |
| 17 | Black was always fashionable with us . |
| 18 | The cane basket on the handlebars of her bicycle was always full on leaving the house and full again with things from her mother 's house when she came back . |
| 19 | Those new to the area were always astonished at the vivid crimson of the earth and buildings . |
| 20 | Your father was always good to me , and his uncle . |
| 21 | Though she had never admitted it to anyone , she disliked being alone in the office since Arabella had fallen to her death from the fire escape : and the feeling was always worse in the evening . |
| 22 | Cytogenetic analysis always failed with coelomic fluid , but fetal sexing was always successful with fluorescence in-situ hybridisation and polymerase chain reaction , and the results agreed with those obtained from chorionic villi and amniotic fluid in all cases . |
| 23 | But the actual work of learning was always that of the child . |
| 24 | Relations with Law were cool but courteous and his tactical advice was always available on difficult issues , such as the question of the Army Act in 1914 . |
| 25 | The initiatives in evangelism were always those of the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | He confesses that , although he was outstanding at school ( he was usually top academically and became Assistant Head Boy — ‘ power without privilege ’ he says ) , the young Bill was always anxious about examinations and aware of the pressure to succeed . |
| 27 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 28 | It would be just as mistaken to assume that pensions legislation was always indicative of concessionary responses to mounting pressure on behalf of the particular groups that eventually benefited . |
| 29 | He drove slow ! y because the rough road was always treacherous in winter and insufficiently sanded , but the inside of the car was warm and the sky alive in blue beyond the windows . |
| 30 | Zeinab was always imprecise about detail . |