Example sentences of "always a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Peter is always a dark horse in any championship , ’ says Garth M'Gimpsey . |
| 2 | Never mix work with pleasure is always a good policy in work and personal relationships . |
| 3 | There was also interruption circuits to prevent airframe structures being hit by an aircraft 's own gunfire but as there was always a round left in the breech , gunners were instructed that after prolonged firing the guns should be stowed into the slipstream until they cooled . |
| 4 | As we have noted above , it is qualitatively a near-front unrounded vowel categorically for most male inner-city speakers , but table 4.8 shows that , regardless of fronting , it is still always a low vowel in Catholic West Belfast . |
| 5 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 6 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 7 | He claims that it is never a mere tautology that what has some such property is good , but always a substantial claim in ethics . |
| 8 | There is always a mournful pleasure in being the bringer of bad news , unless it affects you or the recipients intimately . |
| 9 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 10 | It was the New Year , always a busy time in Scotland . |
| 11 | He had , from a political point of view , the sad disadvantage of espousing the causes of whose rightness he was convinced — always a fatal quality in an aspirant politician . |
| 12 | Alright , so supporting agriculture right , means losses elsewhere in the economy , and this is why protectionism is always a bad , is always a bad thing in terms of net welfare . |
| 13 | Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room , a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes , peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby . |
| 14 | There was always a marked difference in impact between those programmes where people spoke freely in an impromptu , unscripted way and those where the same subject was dealt with in scripted form . |
| 15 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 16 | There was always a free fight in one house or another . |