Example sentences of "[noun sg] was always [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 2 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 3 | In the years after the Great Interruption , Danton 's motto of De l'audace , toujours de l'audace was always the battle-cry of English county players like Harold Gimblett of Somerset , Roy Marshall of Hampshire and Dicky Dodds of Essex . |
| 4 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
| 5 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 6 | The Chinese state , it was argued , was a rehearsal for ‘ social fascism ’ and capitalist restoration was always a possibility without real reform . |
| 7 | But the idea of a tax as some kind of entry ticket for citizenship was always a nonsense : too many are able to dodge paying it . |
| 8 | Tax was always a concern with him . |
| 9 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 10 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 11 | The female assistant was known as the mystic sister , but the man was always the Adept , the Master , Magister . |
| 12 | And the cook in that mess room and the cook was always a youngster who started in the quarry . |
| 13 | But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action . |
| 14 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 15 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 16 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
| 17 | Regardless of how the data was processed , however , the resulting valuation report was always a short , printed , paper document . |
| 18 | Her answer was always the blockbuster , ‘ Honour thy father and thy mother . ’ |
| 19 | His sense of humour was always a feature of the critics ' circuit ; I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade . |
| 20 | And although his father said : ‘ lt was thet boy o' mine ! ’ , the bent drill-furrow was always a source of leg-pulling between the two friendly rivals : ‘ You 're not a ‘ going to tell me a tale like thet , Walter Cater . |
| 21 | Breakfast was always a pleasure . |
| 22 | Chapel Anniversary was always a treat and one year I sang a song , ‘ Wo n't You Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 23 | The chance was not high , though that never deterred a gambler , and the real winner was always the government which thus borrowed the punters ' money interest-free . |
| 24 | His intelligent and uncompromising struggle was always an inspiration to them in theirs . |
| 25 | The context was always a plea for tolerance of something which he had been taught to regard as sinful . |
| 26 | Visiting her in her London house was always a joy . |
| 27 | UNTIL 1963 , when it was sold by the Church , Dormington House was always the rectory . |
| 28 | Her voice was clear and light , its pitch was always a shock to him , when he heard her without seeing her . |
| 29 | ‘ She should have worn her flip-flops , ’ he said , and was startled by the sudden explosion of mirth , but then his mother was always a bit prone to that sort of thing . |
| 30 | The budget ran into millions and staffing was always a nightmare . |