Example sentences of "always [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 2 | Well I suppose it because , as I told you , those four routes were always treated as a separate entity because they were on , there were possible chances of marrying those routes together to get them to run the most economical way . |
| 3 | I 'm surprised that such hedonistic , empty headed opinions should find a place in what I have always regarded as a serious , intelligent newspaper . |
| 4 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
| 5 | However , whereas routine can become mechanical , ritual itself is always intended as a conscious act . |
| 6 | Porridge , for example , was always recommended as a cheap , nutritious food , but for a family cooking in a single pot on an open fire it was an impossible choice , primarily because it tended to stick to the bottom of the pan . |
| 7 | With those two off the target list , the only available scapegoat was Muammar Gaddafi , always seen as a likely accessory before , during and after the fact of the Flight 103 atrocity , but never — ; until December 1990 — seriously proposed as the prime mover . |
| 8 | Always told as a comic story . |
| 9 | In the latter it is common to find small classes sharing a classroom , sometimes with a single teacher , sometimes with more than one but nearly always seated as a separate group with their own ‘ territory ’ and blackboard , for there exists a strange orthodoxy that a teacher with modest education and training ‘ can not be taught to handle more than one class at the same time ’ . |
| 10 | Why is the fugitive slave , the fiery orator , the political activist , the abolitionist always represented as a black man ? |
| 11 | Indeed , even the freedom to roam over the Scottish hills that we , as a nation , have always taken as a basic right , is being increasingly questioned and undermined . |