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

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1 To the Chewong , disease is always explained in terms of one of the above-mentioned attributes being upset in some way , usually through the interference of a non-human being .
2 The Bradleys ' riverside establishment was still nearly always filled with customers during the day but the takings dropped .
3 Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary .
4 ‘ Well , ’ said the Guider , ‘ he might not realise that she ca n't afford to visit him ; relatives do n't always think about points like that , and Miss Miggs would never tell him .
5 Do n't always think in terms of hiding things away .
6 Although scrupulously fair in his writings on deaf history , neither favouring use of sign language or oralism , constantly giving credit where this was due to either method , Abraham Farrar was always regarded by oralists as the greatest triumph for the oral method of teaching the deaf , though Francis Maginn once told a B.D.D.A Congress that ‘ Oral ’ pupils could not be kept from signing .
7 While agricultural production and expenditures are not always contained by regulations of this nature , attempts were made to stabilise agricultural expenditure by introducing automatic price cuts , once thresholds upon production were reached .
8 Rildia Bee held court , charming and charmed , while Gisella Tect , baker extraordinaire , cut the wedding cake Van had bought for the party , as lovely as the wedding cakes he always has at parties for his mother , a wedding cake made , of course , by Gisella Tect herself .
9 I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity .
10 Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it .
11 Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it !
12 Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops .
13 But politicians always speak in terms of percentages and real terms so let's look at the total tax which was demanded from people in the city in the past few years .
14 The building was always damp , cold and we always suffered from chilblains in winter … ’
15 The intervention of the unsavoury witchdoctor Zikali , who appears to be in mental communication with Ayesha as she rules in Kôr , in a way diminishes her immortal , all-powerful aspect , yet it is easy to believe that Allan , always tormented by memories of his two beloved wives , Mane and Stella , should be persuaded by Zikali to visit Ayesha and win through her power a glimpse of the lost ones .
16 Gedge always replied to letters from aspiring editors and made himself readily available for interviews .
17 It is by no means true that a rising tone is always used for questions in English ; it is quite usual , for example , to use a falling tone with questions beginning with one of the ‘ wh-question-words ’ like ‘ what ’ , ‘ which ’ , ‘ when ’ , etc .
18 No single attainment test is administered to all schools , and GCE and CSE examinations were always dogged by problems of comparability .
19 We will always look at ways of helping you to do this .
20 People in Wimbledon , these days , always talked about things as if they were people , and people as if they were things .
21 The concept of level , it must be said , is not an original metaphor to bring to bear on the topic of consciousness : mystics have always talked of levels of consciousness , and the nineteenth-century vitalists wrote at length of the emergence of a level of consciousness from a sufficiently complex lower level of organization .
22 He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor .
23 He was then thrown into a frenzy by a letter announcing the impending arrival of Lando Medici , the richest of American patrons who always paid for ponies in readies out of a Gladstone bag .
24 Velchanos was always subject to the goddess and always shown in attitudes of adoration .
25 The school day always began with prayers at nine o'clock , followed by a scripture lesson , and there was invariably arithmetic in some form or another until dinnertime .
26 The Court of Appeal itself is , subject to limited exceptions , bound by its own previous decisions and is always bound by decisions of the House of Lords .
27 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 .
28 It calls on the speculative ability of a scientist ( for the so-called laws of sound-change such as Grimm 's Law and Verner 's Law are , like scientific laws , working hypotheses about the development of sound ) ; it also requires a workable memory and a simple ability to reason , to see logical consequences , an ability not always found among students of literature .
29 But his work is always marked by elements of his own life , culminating in his final film , JUKTKI TAKKO AR GAPPO , which is virtually a self-portrait , depicting his own problems with alcoholism .
30 ‘ Do you always respond to offers of help like this ? ’
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