Example sentences of "always [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 2 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |
| 3 | The method is always for the researcher to go to live in the community being studied , and to become involved with the residents as a participant observer , but the community researcher will also use a wide variety of other sources of data , as is shown here : |
| 4 | His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the practice has grown up that if the law is not clear , then , given that the possibility of being prosecuted for a crime or sued for damages may exist , albeit as a remote possibility in England , it is better always for the doctor to err on the side of caution and follow the most conservative or restrictive view of the law . |
| 6 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |
| 7 | They are always ready to shed crocodile tears for the camera on behalf of victims , but their real and deep sympathy is always for the criminal . ’ |
| 8 | To overcome this the dimension is expressed always as the square which eliminates negative signs . |
| 9 | Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer . |
| 10 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 11 | Business questions are always about the business for the next week . |
| 12 | ‘ He was always about the place . |
| 13 | Sydel told him that when Jeopardy argued with Amber , it was never about love , but always about the Vibrancy . |
| 14 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |
| 15 | The central conflict is always between the push for the productive forces ( a society 's technology ) to develop further while the property relations enforced by the existing dominant class in their own interests obstruct this progress . |
| 16 | The death of the King ended the client relationship which was always between the Emperor and a particular ruler , and the presence of such a kingdom within the Province was now a political anomaly . |
| 17 | The food was always of the type that anorexics tend to shun — solidly starchy and savoury peasant dishes , followed by mounds of sweet , creamy puddings and richly decorated chocolate cakes . |
| 18 | But their eyes and looks made love for them , and spread happiness around them , and their talk was always of the future they were to spend together . |
| 19 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 20 | Basal and stimulated colonic contractile activity is virtually always of the segmental-type — that is , represented by relatively low amplitude waves , occurring singly or in bursts , in a random sequence . |
| 21 | Er notwithstanding having said that , er we were always of the opinion in the shop stewards ' committee that if a man left , we would then go after the employer to re-engage someone else you know , or engage someone er in his place . |
| 22 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 23 | The oldest housing is not always near the City centre . |
| 24 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 25 | Flies always like the light . |
| 26 | The greatest error in English letters , always excluding the birth of Southey . |
| 27 | We 've managed to avoid the use of overtime we have tried our best to ensure a decent supply of social housing but always against the odds , always against the tide of what is going on in our economy and in the housing situa in the housing market . |
| 28 | He was always against the Poet 's Pub idea . |
| 29 | Though the artist was ill with tuberculosis and had no money to pay for his keep , Marama looked after him while he painted her over and over again ; sometimes nude , sometimes dressed , and nearly always against the background of island scenery — near the waterfalls and the secret pools , in dells that laced the volcanic slopes , in the village market , in the main street of Anani . |
| 30 | Flaubert was a vehemently reactionary anti-Christian , arguing always against the need to assist or promote the weak and meek . |