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

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1 The work of the committees of the council is always the subject of report to the council in some form , either as a report of what the committee has done under delegated powers or by the submission for the approval of the council of the recommendations of the committee .
2 She was always the centre of activity .
3 Mine were always the breed of Norfolk lurcher , a cross between a Smithfield and a greyhound .
4 There was always the night between Sunday and Monday to be considered .
5 For work which did not lead to examinations there was always the problem of assessment and standardizing that assessment between a number of teachers .
6 There was always the problem of Ireland .
7 Thus , there is always the problem of temptation , as the following former user pointed out :
8 ‘ And then there is always the problem of Markham , ’ said Dhani , looking at Ian .
9 In addition , there is always the problem of ethics .
10 Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement .
11 ‘ Jazz , to me , was always the music of individuality .
12 When there is little room for flexibility , there is always the possibility of compromise .
13 Although there was always the possibility of drought or flooding , the Nile seldom brought disaster to Egypt .
14 There is always the possibility of disruption .
15 It is likely to be frightened in the dark , and there is always the possibility of exhaust fumes leaking into this compartment , sometimes with deadly effects .
16 Or as Dr Ed Wheat puts it in Love Life for Every Married Couple , ‘ If you are afraid to try it because you are afraid you will be hurt , consider this : the risk of pain is always the price of life . ’
17 This sounds a little like Peter Simple 's racing tipster , who always gets the name of the Derby winner right , but never manages to get his tip into the paper on time , always the day after race .
18 And then it turned real — always the beginning of tragedy .
19 But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ?
20 God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease …
21 But the verdict it looks for is always the judgement of truth , the verdict handed down by reality .
22 The Queen of Ulthuan is always the Queen of Avelorn .
23 Always the shareholders in Paris want higher production .
24 It 's always the way with assassins , they hate the light of day . ’
25 I know it 's always the way with plot resumes , but there are actually one or two minor mistakes there are n't there ?
26 " That 's always the way with Debbie , " Mrs Ainsworth laughed .
27 Is n't that always the way with promises ?
28 Downstream was always the way to People
29 To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school .
30 Always the man of action type rather than the deep thinker , he is a captain who leads by example ; if he showed himself rather insensitive to the needs of his bowlers , he showed his batsmen just what to do .
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