Example sentences of "always a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The data studied in discourse analysis is always a fragment of discourse and the discourse analyst always has to decide where the fragment begins and ends .
2 Always a champion of monogamy , she is cooking up some fancy new diseases .
3 Always a man of action , he enrolled at Napier College for a self-learning course and , in his own words , ‘ respectfully departed from insurance and never regretted it . ’
4 that was always a question of money ,
5 Whilst an announcement in the London Gazette is good notice to all persons who are not existing clients or creditors , it is always a question of fact as to whether persons who have had dealings with the firm have received sufficient notice of changes .
6 Stephen and Marypen bought Fulford House for their family of three , and in particular their daughter Antonia needed land and stabling for her riding career — the horses are always a centre of interest for visitors .
7 Always a masterpiece of criticism , empathy .
8 With the advent of quantum mechanics , we have come to recognize that events can not be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty .
9 They add : " In any case , there is always a degree of uncertainty about outcomes at the beginnings of a new initiative , when alternatives are imprecisely mapped out and staff are to be engaged in a process of critical reflection .
10 A ramshackle despotism encourages irresponsibility ; there was always a chance of success and it was the weakest of the conspiracies — that of 1820 — which defeated the government .
11 There was always a choice of tea with lemon , cool sweet moscato white wine or malvasia from Torrechiara , a village in the hills .
12 Symbolism , which is always a relationship of evocation , is held in most studies to be a highly variable process which is dependent upon the social positioning of the interpreter and the context of interpretation .
13 During chemical reactions , there is always a dispersal of energy either from the chemical system to its surroundings or from the surroundings to the chemical system .
14 On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom .
15 Whatever the explanation , for some of us there was always a sense of fear in this secluded spot and that moreover linked to a train .
16 There is always a sense of reality and credibility in the accounts .
17 There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission .
18 There is always a possibility of deceit or self-deception .
19 So you 're sitting in your office and some , you know your , your boss comes in and says hey the president says so and so , but the president does n't usually say it to you he says it to somebody else so there 's always , there 's always a possibility of ambiguity , somebody else has interpreted the president 's message in a particular way .
20 Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature .
21 There was always a bottle of cough medicine in all the rooms , even outside in the shed and in a box buried in the vegetable patch .
22 In practice it is always out of the question : there is always a residuum of unpredictability .
23 But again , there is always a residuum of unpredictability ; we can always opt to choose not to be influenced in the predicted direction .
24 Even so , employee mobility is diminishing , worldwide , as people realise their loyalty to an employer is not always a guarantee of job security , and quality of life takes a higher focus for many .
25 After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library .
26 Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State .
27 There was always a diversity of practice — as there still is — in religious attitudes , customs and modes of worship .
28 It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations .
29 There is always a problem of terminology and definitions .
30 Another effect of the variety of starting-points , in history , philosophy , literary studies , linguistics , aesthetics and social theory , as well as in sociology itself , is that there is always a problem of overlap with other distinct and still necessary disciplines .
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