Example sentences of "always to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 2 | Easy the congestion with a very special binder for our pull-out-and-keep Gardeners ' Manual , and keep this invaluable reference work together and always to hand . |
| 3 | There can be no Christian blueprint for the ‘ final ’ form of society , since it is part of its perception of the human condition that all forms of society are provisional , reflecting human sinfulness , though not always to an equal degree . |
| 4 | But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity . |
| 5 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 6 | ‘ She seems always to be on the tramp these days . ’ |
| 7 | Such a pan usually arises at a depth of about six to ten inches , caused by digging ( or more frequently rotovating ) always to the same depth . |
| 8 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 9 | From then on , the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy . |
| 10 | Capital money was , however , always to be paid , not to the life tenant , but to trustees , who were to hold the money upon the same trusts as those upon which the land had been held . |
| 11 | People used always to be saying that about her . |
| 12 | And he reserved a ladder and a coil of rope , always to be ready . |
| 13 | The spring display uses stronger colours — yellow alyssum , red and yellow tulips , blue grape hyacinths and purple aubrieta are always to the fore . |
| 14 | In Cyprian 's conception of the church , it also followed that the bishop is the vehicle of sacramental order , and to be authentically Christian is always to be in communion with the catholic bishop . |
| 15 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 16 | Landowners were , however , allowed to retain the rights of pasture and of cutting wood which they had previously enjoyed , subject to the customary payment of ‘ puture ’ to the foresters , and ‘ saving always to the king his deer and pasture for the same ’ . |
| 17 | There are interesting portraits of Kingsley 's female contemporaries — notably , Mary Slessor , Vice-Consul of Okoyong — but always to the disadvantage of Kingsley herself . |
| 18 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 19 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 20 | ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone . |
| 21 | In theory , you can convert a road shoe to cross-country shoe or vice versa , but as midsoles and uppers are not designed for such changes , it would not always to wise to try to . |
| 22 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 23 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 24 | Beyond , the Edge becomes less well defined and is succeeded by steep slopes , surmounted by inclining eastwards and following the county boundary and the watershed and keeping always to the height of land in surroundings of utter desolation yet of profound influence on the landscape , for three major rivers have their source hereabouts : the streams flowing east are tributaries of the River Swale , those to the west drain an area known as Eden Springs , the source of the River Eden , and a short distance to the south are the beginnings of the River Ure . |
| 25 | He now grinned ; then looked from Elaine to Charles and said , ‘ You know , you two used always to be sitting like this whenever you got the chance . |
| 26 | The present distinction between hill and upland sheep breeds , which is a rather ad hoc system of differentiation , should be dropped and sheep HLCA payments linked to a more thorough and meaningful LFA zoning ( see p. 65 ) subject always to a maximum of 50 LUs per farm unit . |
| 27 | Popper described science as the greatest adventure in the world for it is an endless search for new ideas and it is devoted always to creativity . |
| 28 | That this has not always to be the case in religion is demonstrated by religions like Buddhism and Hinduism where laughter plays a big part . |
| 29 | ‘ Wherever you are and in whatever circumstances you find yourself , strive always to be a lover , and a passionate lover at that . |
| 30 | They mark especial favours from the sovereign , for although ordinary grants of arms can be purchased ( subject always to the Earl Marshal 's pleasure and discretion ) , an augmentation can not , for its bestowal is in effect a royal warrant under the hand and seal of the reigning monarch . |