Example sentences of "it is always [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On TV , you can get ratings for every minute of every programme ( but it is always history : you have to guess whether history will repeat itself ) . |
| 2 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 3 | There 's a certain status attached to labels like Creation and 4AD that cause anally retentive males — and it is always males — to collect their product . |
| 4 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 5 | In that house it is always night . |
| 6 | It is impossible to be certain , however , whether it is always technology that has caused change or whether technical innovation has been spurred by changes elsewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ When we falter , ’ said Bec , peering into a huge simmering cauldron of something that smelled savoury and good , ‘ it is always Raynor who helps us . |
| 8 | It is always news when something happens to a tram ! |