Example sentences of "[vb -s] always " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
| 32 | To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community . |
| 33 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 34 | Judaism , as we have seen , has always emphasised the wholeness of man 's nature and sought to sustain it . |
| 35 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 36 | The phrase has always interested me . |
| 37 | In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge . |
| 38 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 39 | Nottinghamshire based Delahunty Associates has always provided a diverse service of sports reporting but now sees its role in tennis , in particular , developing . |
| 40 | Linear representation of solid form has always been a valid artistic technique , especially in drawing ( as distinct from painting ) , and it can be used in marquetry work also provided the nature of the material ( ie. wood ) is not ignored . |
| 41 | It has always been a problem : the ghosts are n't laughing now . |
| 42 | My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them . |
| 43 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 44 | The word ‘ theory ’ has always aroused suspicion amongst the English , who see themselves as practical people and sound empiricists . |
| 45 | Beyond this , I do not accept much of the Freudian mythological apparatus , though Civilization and its Discontents has always seemed to me a penetrating if deeply pessimistic work of cultural analysis . |
| 46 | It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments . |
| 47 | ‘ English ’ in American schools and universities has always been a cultural , not a progressive , intellectual subject . |
| 48 | These readings are intermittently illuminating , if reductive , and basically they are doing what criticism has always done , which is to interpret the works of the past in the terms and concepts of the critic 's own age . |
| 49 | When Scholes proposes ‘ studying texts ’ he invokes the terminology of semiotics , but he is , in effect , working in a tradition of rhetorical analysis that has always been an element in institutional English study , and which in the 1930s resulted in the work of Leavis and Thompson and other Scrutineers on contemporary culture and its artefacts . |
| 50 | There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s . |
| 51 | Every change he has advocated has always struck him as being of instant urgency . |
| 52 | The Master of the Rolls has always been keen to find a middle way . ’ |
| 53 | He brings to his games an intensity of concentration few can match , but he has always found Karpov a very difficult opponent . |
| 54 | WHO TO WATCH While the best that chart music can manage in the way of band names is Black Box , the pub circuit has always been ripe with imaginative handles . |
| 55 | What if , by some unforeseen mischance , the vaccinia-rabies hybrid turned into an organism that actually spread rabies - a disease that has always been comparatively difficult to catch — with smallpox-like contagion ? |
| 56 | The firm claims a good relationship with its Fawley neighbours , and has always said it regrets the difficulties with Torfaen council ( the local authority for Pontypool ) . |
| 57 | Despite a large Roman Catholic following and a Catholic convert , Phyllis Bowman , as its national director , the society 's leadership has always insisted that it is not — unlike its ally Pro-Life — a primarily Catholic organisation . |
| 58 | The society , which has a permanent parliamentary lobbyist , has always been politically pragmatic and astute , compromising to make any progress , however small . |
| 59 | Botham has always had a taste for showbiz . |
| 60 | Although the option of US military intervention has often been canvassed , it has always officially been discounted . |