Example sentences of "[noun sg] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Action on receipt of reply Always inform clients of result of search ; if any material entry , confer with them and take their instructions before exchanging contracts . |
| 2 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 3 | True , it is an altruism grounded in selfishness , but that need not bother us ( it can only lead into the usual teenage casuistry about altruism always being ultimately selfish ) . |
| 4 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 5 | ( That 's where a real musher always rests his arm on the cab window-frame during traffic jams . ) |
| 6 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 7 | The western slopes of the Annalong Valley are a superb vantage points to watch shepherds and dogs in action , and if your itinerary always includes a stop for a mug of tea then be warned that the only tea-shop I know of in the area is in the park at the bottom of Silent Valley . |
| 8 | To cope with the traditional use of variable hours , so that the period of daylight always comprised twelve , Andronicus is thought to have used a system that is described in detail by his Roman contemporary , the architect Vitruvius . |
| 9 | If a rational style of thinking and intention openly presented , with results of action always revealed , became a large scale , habitually public act , it alone would be a considerable achievement . |
| 10 | Her action always embarrassed him , but as it was unobtrusive he doubted if anyone else noticed it . |
| 11 | Whereas working class collective action always faces the difficulty of individualism , self-interest and fragmentation , the collective interests of capital are less ambiguous — simply to make profits . |
| 12 | For him , political action always has a moral purpose . |
| 13 | You can place a marker at the edge of the swim which , at forty yards or more range , is a tremendous aid to accurate casting and ensures that groundbait always goes in the same spot . |
| 14 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |
| 15 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 17 | There is an ambivalence in Genet which his critic always misread and his defenders often overlook . |
| 18 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |
| 19 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 20 | Leavis always laid claim to the subtler view of controversy , but his doctrine was always easily open , as he knew , to cruder interpretations , and the fire-and-brimstone of his prose sometimes made it hard to interpret or understand in any other way . |
| 21 | ‘ Returning to the land of the living always does , ’ he replied . |
| 22 | The future always comes true . |
| 23 | Whatever your aims , building up a cash reserve for the future always makes sense . |
| 24 | If what is proposed is not ‘ development ’ , the ‘ developer ’ does not have to worry , but not every planning officer or outside adviser always checks this first . |
| 25 | Why is their effect always short-lived and superficial ? |
| 26 | To find the best way in which to correct such an observation and to nullify its effect always poses a problem for the judge because , if he intervenes immediately , the effect will probably be to emphasise the obvious relevance and cogency of the comment which ought not to have been made . |
| 27 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 28 | and looking at that programme always , only have to be , pretty engaging months and years , just the only job they back , they would and the nineteen ninety five might be what federal just |
| 29 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 30 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |