Example sentences of "always [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage .
2 I welcome the support that my hon. Friend has always given to that company .
3 We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience .
4 The face as image is always precarious , for it is always exposed to possible re-framing and re-definition by other images .
5 Prior to Stuart 's reign Surrey 's amateurs always travelled by first-class rail .
6 American capitalism has always relied on international rivalry and the occasional war to create an artificial community of interest between the rich and the poor .
7 I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music .
8 Privatisation is always preceded by extensive television and newspaper advertising ; in the most recent privatisations , about £42 million was spent on advertising the water sell off and the estimated cost of promoting the sale of the electricity industry was over £100 million .
9 Body and mind were among the contraries to be reconciled , and the true union of opposites was always preceded by bitter conflict .
10 Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit , and at present X Windows is probably winning .
11 The two boxes can be placed on top of each other ( not always recommended with this class of equipment ) or side by side , and , due to their compact size , this should not be too space consuming .
12 The Salvadorean trade union movement has always suffered from brutal repression ; there has never been freedom to organize .
13 The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony .
14 Our movements were like a formal dance , always related to each other .
15 Certainly there is evidence that their distribution is very patchy and not always related to known housing need ( figure 5.5 ) .
16 We can see how family memory is socially shaped , and also the willingness to incorporate substitutes , not always related in any way , for absent grandparents .
17 Smith has always struggled against top class spinners when he first meets them -but worked it out in the end .
18 But it is not always seen in this way .
19 Nicholson himself was always moved by this story and felt affection that a man such as Hope could be so touched .
20 Always done with royal approval , which was sought beforehand , the collection of such levies emphasised two factors : that the crown 's right to tax and to organise the general defence of France was recognised ; equally , that , in practice , the responsibility for carrying out defensive projects was left to local initiative and energy .
21 ‘ Rinsing is always done with clean water , ’ Mr Doig adds .
22 Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day .
23 Doing conventional things well has always met with parental approval .
24 The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted .
25 Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain .
26 Provolone is always made in unusual barrel shapes and tied in cords , which are then used to hang the cheese while it is maturing .
27 The shop had that lovely smell which one associates with his type of establishment and the floor was always sprinkled with fresh sawdust .
28 Temping jobs are traditionally secretarial but temps are always needed for clerical work and filing , as well as teaching , nursing , pharmaceuticals and school-meals supervision , for example .
29 But when she did , it was always performed with complete aplomb and without the slightest trace of hesitation or reddening of cheeks .
30 ‘ What is appropriated and reproduced is here only the herd and not the soil which is always used in temporary commonalty wherever the tribe breaks its wanderings. ’ [ p. 89 . ]
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