Example sentences of "is always [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscow is a grey city ; comfort there is always tied to power , and power too frequently to abuse of power . |
| 2 | Similarly , the violence in many sections of our own society today is , in the media , taken as proof of ‘ the animal nature of man ’ which — an insult to many animals — is always understood to be destructively aggressive . |
| 3 | First , consent in the strict sense is always given to the actions of other persons . |
| 4 | The voice that is always compared to the young Sinatra , and always comes out better in the comparison stayed mostly out of the limelight as Harry let his sixteen piece band do the talking . |
| 5 | The Warrant , although used by a company , is always granted to an individual — which , in the case of Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , is Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive . |
| 6 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 7 | The face as image is always precarious , for it is always exposed to possible re-framing and re-definition by other images . |
| 8 | While the term essay may refer to a form of highly regarded literary style , the term composition is always limited to the classroom . |
| 9 | To maintain that , since the ‘ biological ’ is always presented to us as mediated by the ‘ social ’ , the ‘ biological ’ is nothing and the ‘ social ’ is everything , would once again be idealist sophistry . |
| 10 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 11 | A non-pedigree dog is always referred to as a mongrel and , strictly speaking , this is the correct term for a non-pedigree cat , but few people use it in this way . |
| 12 | Finally , some writers alternate " he " and " she " ( for example , in Open University coursebooks , alternative paragraphs have " he " or " she " ; and in Sperber and Wilson 's linguistic work , Relevance Theory , the speaker is always referred to as " she " — " s " for " speaker " — and the hearer as " he " — " h " for " hearer " ) . |
| 13 | The first time one addresses an instructor , one should call him sifu , which means ‘ father ’ and is always applied to a Chinese kung fu instructor in accordance with the art 's long family traditions . |
| 14 | Oral language is always directed to a particular individual usually with some intended effect such as influencing his views , maintaining a certain relationship or controlling his actions . |
| 15 | However , if the gentle touch or water squirt is always coupled to the electric shock , the planaria will eventually respond to the otherwise unnoticed stimulus itself . |
| 16 | But that is only half the picture , for sensory perception is always linked to motor response , to outward behaviour . |
| 17 | In other cases ( like fasciclin III ) , expression begins near the time of neuromuscular contact and is always restricted to NMJ sites . |
| 18 | The proper modernist artefact is always held to be aesthetically pleasing precisely to the degree to which it exemplifies the adage that form follows function ( Benton and Benton 1975 ) . |
| 19 | Although there are kinsmen and in-laws with whom it is proper to live , the final choice is always left to the individual as a private decision . |
| 20 | In some languages such as Lisu , Japanese , and Korean , topics are further marked by the addition of a morpheme : for example , the suffix -nya is always added to the topic of a sentence in Lisu . |
| 21 | The genitive suffix is always added to the last element of a word group : the Prince of Wales 's birthday ; a day or two 's rest . |
| 22 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |