Example sentences of "always a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 2 | This was always a melton overcoat . |
| 3 | There 's always a chill wind blowing off that river . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 5 | A lot of them brought bacon and eggs but you had to cook it and they had to leave the pans and things clean when they left — so it was always a rush job and all policemen suffered from bad stomachs . |
| 6 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 7 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 8 | There 's always a debit side . |
| 9 | There was always a harvest supper for the farm workers after all the hay and wheat had been cut . |
| 10 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 11 | Even after Ceauşescu 's death , Lord Callaghan , who had been Foreign Secretary in 1975 , recalled generously that Ceauşescu was ‘ always a rogue elephant in the Warsaw Pact ’ and had ‘ helped us ’ in drafting the Helsinki accords and as a go-between with Moscow . |
| 12 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 13 | Working with Maxwell was not always a horror story . |
| 14 | You know , she says , in every Catholic family , er , there is always a relapse person , and it 's usually the nicest . |
| 15 | One of the county M.P.s was always a Pelham nominee ; for almost half the eighteenth century he was usually the eldest son . |
| 16 | No , the bad cover is always a committee cock-up , a sign of its times , or at the very least , one that got away … |
| 17 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 18 | ‘ A Healthy Step ’ is a ten-minute video which deals with the need to keep rubbish cleared and burned , particularly in marginalised urban communities where poor facilities are always a health risk . |
| 19 | In such tests there is always a control product or pack , the behaviour of which under market conditions is known . |
| 20 | The period is almost always a calendar year ; the average population size may be the estimated midyear figure as in the UK or the average of the 1 January figures in the year in question and the following year . |
| 21 | Once a hod carrier , always a hod carrier . |
| 22 | Yet at Stamford , thirty miles away , not an industrial town but indeed always a market town for a very rich countryside , the market place has shrunk to a fraction of its original size . |
| 23 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
| 24 | When you first meet a client , there is always a honeymoon period when everything seems to go smoothly and the atmosphere is charged with cheerfulness and hope . |
| 25 | In the 1930s this zone was variously referred to as the ‘ axial belt ’ , even the ‘ coffin' , though in truth there was always a low-density gap between London and Birmingham , so perhaps ‘ doughnut ’ would have been more appropriate . |
| 26 | Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data . |
| 27 | Keener has little technical background , but was always a record nut , having started collecting at the age of five or six . |
| 28 | But there 's always a silver lining . |
| 29 | But there 's always a silver lining , is n't there , dear ? " |
| 30 | ‘ There 's always a gypsy king and queen somewhere , ’ I said , ‘ if we can find them . ’ |