Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] always [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sinking stomach pains which heralded this loss were always welcome to me , and afterwards I would feel triumphantly clean . |
| 2 | ‘ I got a great reception but the club were always generous to me when I played and managed here . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clausewitz , distantly pursued by Mr Pick , thought war was always subordinate to political will . |
| 9 | A place was always ready for it . |
| 10 | Grandma was always nice to me in her vague way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both Randall and Boot were always modest about their achievement . |
| 15 | Black was always fashionable with us . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Those new to the area were always astonished at the vivid crimson of the earth and buildings . |
| 18 | Your father was always good to me , and his uncle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Zeinab was always imprecise about detail . |
| 25 | Yet others with five times the income were always short of funds . |
| 26 | I used to run a training course on on how to run exhibitions and one of the things that that female were always surprised about I said do n't where high heels on the exhibition stand . |
| 27 | The leader of this Group , Lieutenant R. Clement , having signalled the colonel by way of HMS Kenya — communications by radio were always difficult in this or any other hilly country — was then told to move up the coast road and form a reserve for the Troops attacking the town . |
| 28 | Paul also openly flaunted his affair with the wealthy fighter pilot Peter Pollock , who was often present at 5 Shaftesbury Villas , a house which in Ruskin Spear 's memory was always full of young men with no clothes on . |
| 29 | The Company was always alive to the traffic potential of sporting and other events , not only at the Crystal Palace and as well as running extra cars on Saturday afternoons between the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ Penge and Selhurst for football traffic , all spare cars available from both depôts were pressed into service between West Croydon and ‘ Cold Blows ’ , Mitcham Common , when Mitcham Fair took place each year . |
| 30 | Accordingly , as for example in Bentham 's design for a prison , Fine ( 1979 p 85 ) observed : " … inmates were to be subjected to a perpetual supervision in the isolation of their cells by an " inspector " , whose presence was always visible in the shape of the central guard tower , but whose particular focus and conclusions were neither within the vision , knowledge or control of the suspected . " |