Example sentences of "always [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 For work which did not lead to examinations there was always the problem of assessment and standardizing that assessment between a number of teachers .
4 Thus , there is always the problem of temptation , as the following former user pointed out :
5 ‘ Jazz , to me , was always the music of individuality .
6 When there is little room for flexibility , there is always the possibility of compromise .
7 Although there was always the possibility of drought or flooding , the Nile seldom brought disaster to Egypt .
8 There is always the possibility of disruption .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 And then it turned real — always the beginning of tragedy .
13 But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ?
14 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 …
15 But the verdict it looks for is always the judgement of truth , the verdict handed down by reality .
16 The Queen of Ulthuan is always the Queen of Avelorn .
17 I know it 's always the way with plot resumes , but there are actually one or two minor mistakes there are n't there ?
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday .
21 In these matters there is always the question of payment and in this case …
22 The Youth Service is seen as important at diocesan level , but this is not always the case at parish level . ’
23 In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume .
24 Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right .
25 Keld is a Norse word meaning ‘ a spring ’ and the first settlers here could not have chosen a more appropriate name for there is always the sound of water ; the little cluster of stone buildings occupies a headland thrust into the turbulent cataracts of the Swale , in infancy Yorkshire 's most exuberant river .
26 Many patients said that they had had to avoid lying on one side ( not always the side of pain ) from the onset of their symptoms .
27 No matter how new and safe the wiring in a home , there is always the danger of injury and electrocution .
28 There was always the danger of curvature of the spine .
29 The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes .
30 The National Gallery asserts that it was always the intention of Kramar to donate the collection in its entirety to the Czechoslovak State .
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