Example sentences of "always [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , ‘ Louise is a coward ; she always retreats in an argument . ’ |
| 2 | In credit transfer , the previous experience is always attested by an award or certificate from an awarding body . |
| 3 | Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations . |
| 4 | Attempts to change the system — and there have been many — have always foundered on an unwillingness to abandon the gold standard of British education . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to hate even visiting South Wales , because the idea of going back always seemed like an admission of defeat to me . |
| 6 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 7 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 8 | Scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument ; the better the argument , the stronger the scepticism it generates . |
| 9 | The conclusion is that with which we started ; scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument . |
| 10 | Take people to objections , take them to where you want them to be and bear in mind you 're always looking for an objection |
| 11 | The Warrant , although used by a company , is always granted to an individual — which , in the case of Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , is Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive . |
| 12 | Two people who speak the same language can always work towards an understanding about what each of them is talking about and what each of them wishes to achieve by what they say . |
| 13 | To begin with the little-uns looked on Piggy as their parental figure because he always acted like an adult in their eyes and tried to make them laugh . |
| 14 | Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies . |
| 15 | Her satire , however , is always underpinned by an awareness of women 's vulnerability . |
| 16 | Anderson , who was always accompanied by an umbrella and a bag bulging with papers and letters , gave an impression of philosophical detachment . |
| 17 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 18 | The kind of man you always find at an accident , full of information and pessimism . |
| 19 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |
| 20 | There are logical conditions of experiencing objects of the second category , but colour always figures as an object of the first category , as in the following passage : |
| 21 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |
| 22 | Gunningham concluded that the acts only reflected the types of control which were economically convenient to industry , and that ‘ since strict enforcement of more severe legislation would attack the very root of capitalism … then any compromise between alternative policies and views is always struck within an area which does not threaten these interests ’ ( Gunningham 1974 : 83 ) . |
| 23 | It does n't always lead to an arrest by any means but it can help to solve the jigsaw and maybe come up with a welcome " good deed " . |
| 24 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 25 | On another level , on a completely different level the book is about Freud 's attempt in my erm in the second edition of I used the analogy of a detective story like Sherlock Holmes or something , or something er i i it , it 's an attempt by Freud to reconstruct specific historical events that may or may not have happened , using a kind of detective 's method because Freud picks up tiny little clues like Moses ' name , the fact that he does n't appear to be able to speak the language in the Bible , he always speaks through an interpreter , and in the Bible this , this is explained away by saying . |
| 26 | Why is it that , in Greenock and Port Glasgow , genuine claims for disability benefit in respect of vibration white finger are almost always forced to an appeal ? |
| 27 | ‘ William Russell I had always , always liked as an actor . |
| 28 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 29 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 30 | From the disco veteran who speaks with fundamentalist passion about the centred sense of self-belief and release while dancing to Diana Ross ‘ Love Hangover ’ , to the fabric of self-realisation portrayed in Saturday Night Fever , disco has always functioned as an entrée to ecstasy ( with a small e ) and identity . |