Example sentences of "always [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals .
2 The word ‘ theory ’ has always aroused suspicion amongst the English , who see themselves as practical people and sound empiricists .
3 ‘ Well — but my nose is red , ’ she said ruefully , ready as always to poke fun at herself .
4 Wild animals have always formed part of the diet , depending on the existence of any natural habitat in the locality of the settlement .
5 Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) .
6 Well , we 've always given money for Eretz and now we 're giving men and women , including our beloved Rabbi .
7 But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’
8 But Dad had always given responsibility to Charles , shared his worries and fears with Charles … well , that was fine , as long as she was allowed her fair say as well .
9 ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images .
10 ‘ The people of the Cévennes have always given refuge to the oppressed . ’
11 Le Page and Tabouret-Keller write : As the individual speaks he [ sic ] is seen as always using language with reference to the inner models of the universe he has constructed for himself ; he projects in words images of that universe ( or , of those universes ) on to the social screen , and these images may be more or less sharply focussed , or more or less diffuse , in relation to each other or in relation to those projected by others in their interaction with him …
12 The massive , tumultuous and frequently violent changes in human society that characterize this century have , without question , formed the substance of major political theories , which at the same time — because such theories always combine analysis with some ideology or ‘ vision ’ of the social world — have directly influenced the shape and direction that these changes have taken .
13 He argues that although there is no such thing as production ‘ in general ’ since , in Marx 's words , ‘ When we talk of production we always mean production of individuals living in society , ’ nevertheless all forms of production have some things in common .
14 Fairs and fights seem always to go hand in hand .
15 No , ’ he went on weightily , ‘ not even in the interests of a firm which has always regarded continuity in its staff as of paramount importance to its operation . ’
16 They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different .
17 Trust always involves risk by others , even though in all schools children are occasionally injured in accidents and some children bullied , parents , on the whole , have absolute trust that teachers will see that no harm will come to their child .
18 We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner .
19 I can always eat dim-sum with my dybbuk . ’
20 So what we 've got to say to the County Council I would suggest is that this is a training course similar to those we always got release for branch officials and shop stewards so why should you turn your nose up at this training course ?
21 A. T. You always got respect from the people on the ground .
22 It always goes hand in hand with any great artist .
23 However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition :
24 I personally have always liked the one-hundred-per-cent aspect of life ; I have always enjoyed life at the extremes .
25 Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves .
26 He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent .
27 But , as he always found room in his life for north Oxfordshire and his family , he also enjoyed setting down some of his local preoccupations and irritations .
28 However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) .
29 It now whether you 're taking a portrait or anything at all it 's always more interesting I think , if you can take a a slightly different viewpoint , a di whether it 's up high or down below , or whatever er i that always adds interest to it .
30 However , the converse does not hold true , for separation in the reference space will always guarantee separation under any chosen local conditions .
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