Example sentences of "always a [noun] of [noun] " 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 | Most enjoyable of all is A swan ( ‘ En svane ’ ) , always a favourite of Flagstad , where the glorious voice peals out as if in its prime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And er never shoes they were always boots , did n't have sort of half shoes it was always a pair of boots that you had . |
| 13 | There was always a choice of tea with lemon , cool sweet moscato white wine or malvasia from Torrechiara , a village in the hills . |
| 14 | There was always a couple of works men on call , so it could easily have been done . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is always a sense of reality and credibility in the accounts . |
| 20 | There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission . |
| 21 | There is always a possibility of deceit or self-deception . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I suppose it 's a metaphor for life , because life is n't always a bed of roses , either . ’ |
| 24 | She was always a mass of bruises . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
| 27 | Yet , barring the little mishaps , always a feature of Danu life , the work progressed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 30 | In practice it is always out of the question : there is always a residuum of unpredictability . |