Example sentences of "[adv] always [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Bradleys ' riverside establishment was still nearly always filled with customers during the day but the takings dropped .
2 Cocaine production requires large amounts of water , hence factories are nearly always built by streams .
3 All families with children are disadvantaged by this , but , since child benefit is nearly always paid to women , it is they who are most disadvantaged .
4 Rockhoppers nearly always nest in colonies up on the tops of cliffs , sometimes 30 metres above the sea , which , on the face of it , seems a daft place for a bird which can not fly !
5 The operation , although nearly always refused by vets in Britain , has become so common in certain countries that it even has an official name .
6 We identify this morphology as types IV and V pancreatitis in our classification , these being nearly always encountered in cases of CBD stenosis in our experience .
7 Conduct sufficient for a dissolution This sweeping provision is nearly always found in agreements although if the expulsion powers have been properly drafted it should always be possible and preferable to invoke some more specific ground .
8 In a population mainly consisting of doves , the animals will nearly always play against doves , and ‘ hawk ’ will be favoured because its average pay-off is higher in these fights : W > W÷2 .
9 They nearly always hunt in couples , so one expects to find either no horns at all or two horns .
10 Like the syllabub , the fruit fool was almost always served in glasses or custard cups , although Susannah MacIver , an Edinburgh cookery teacher and author of an excellent little book called Cookery and Pastry , 5774 , directs that her gooseberry cream be served on an " asset " , the old Scots word for platter .
11 These long-term contracts differ from shorter or one-off agreements ( for endorsements or live performances ) because they almost always call for musicians ' exclusive services .
12 Does my hon. Friend agree that the very people of whom Labour Members complain , saying that they do not give a service in Government Departments , almost always belong to unions who support the Labour party ?
13 In the post-war period , Hollywood began to atone for its blatantly racist depictions of blacks with sporadic anti-racist films , almost always directed by whites .
14 Personal injury cases are almost always tried by judges alone , and receive recompense on a scale which can be predicted with some accuracy by reference to recent cases .
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