Example sentences of "always [vb pp] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Building Societies Commission has always considered it desirable to develop disclosure requirements for building societies roughly in parallel with those for the rest of the banking sector . |
| 2 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 3 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 5 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 6 | But the loss of military independence , industrial capacity , employment and markets that such a policy would involve has always made it unacceptable to Western European governments and electorates , including our own . |
| 7 | In the past we 've always made it easy for you . |
| 8 | Mrs Puri has always made it clear that she does not like Abroad . |
| 9 | But Arsenal said they had always made it clear that , while Bondholders would get priority for tickets , any still available would be sold . |
| 10 | I have always made it clear that I take seriously any allegations of misbehaviour in any children 's home in Wales . |
| 11 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 12 | Since then I 'm very pleased that two of them have done so , and I very much hope that the others will as well and I 've always made it clear I 'm perfectly prepared to explain any situation to any Council or Councillors who want to talk to me — my door is always open . |
| 13 | The Americans and their allies have always made it plain that January 15th was merely the point after which war would become authorised , not necessarily the date for attack . |
| 14 | He has always made it tough for me when he has been in contention but I can deal with that because I have confidence in my game . ’ |
| 15 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 16 | And the thing is that when of the , I have n't seen anywhere any kind of poll system , you know , I think it 's a , I 've always thought it outrageous as a women actually , that women have had to pay for toilets , and erm , I mean if we , you know , if we , we might , I mean , I , I would be in favour of a system where , you know , you , say a local Council issues a pass , which you pay for , have differential rates , but it 's like people paying up front for that toilet service . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible . |
| 18 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
| 19 | It 's the ‘ turn ’ of a particular hotel or city , or they choose it because they have a vague idea that it might be rather nice to go to Torquay next year , or even — worst of all — because ‘ We 've always had it there' ! |
| 20 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 21 | Private sector organisations , more familiar with the model , have not always found it easy to integrate non-executive directors into their work ( Ham , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | She had always found it easy to wait , to say nothing , to live in the silence of the moment . |
| 23 | At school he had always found it easy to get women . |
| 24 | She had always found it impossible to lie to Julius , though . |
| 25 | Yet the government has always found it safer to regulate companies than to tax consumers , and Mr Bush is especially averse to taxes . |
| 26 | That came straight from my early conditioning , my relationship with my mother and the fact that I have always found it easier to give than receive . |
| 27 | A young relative writing to me recently expressed the feeling that she had always found it easier to give than to receive . |
| 28 | I think I 've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate . |
| 29 | Ballesteros has always found it difficult to leave his home in Pedrena . |
| 30 | Reductivist theory ( at least in its utilitarian form ) has always found it difficult to encompass the notion of rights , even when it comes to providing entirely innocent people with a right not to be punished . |