Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasional meeting of a backpacker on the trail was different , and friendly words were always exchanged . |
| 2 | Sometimes they were to be found in a corner , solemnly talking to a rather battered doll whose arms and legs were always popping off , waiting to be clipped on by a passing ‘ brother ’ who was inevitably obliging . |
| 3 | Arnold , Williams and Douglas scored second half tries for Gosforth , Johnson adding a conversion and a penalty , but Morley were always in control . |
| 4 | The implications of the project for the INSET of teachers in county schools were always acknowledged as of considerable importance . |
| 5 | My remedies were always right , |
| 6 | HSE inspectors in the Chelmsford and Norwich offices were always willing to give advice to contractors in the prevention of falls from heights . |
| 7 | ‘ We had reached a point , ’ says Taiwo , ‘ where clients were always asking us , ‘ And where is your shop ? ’ ’ |
| 8 | Clients were ALWAYS complaining . |
| 9 | ‘ Leila , you know you and Ewan were always special to me . |
| 10 | The provincial spectacles were always on a much smaller scale since governors and wealthy patrons could never attempt to emulate the extravagant shows in Rome for fear of arousing the suspicious jealousy of the reigning Emperor . |
| 11 | Maybe this is because Wodehouse 's country house settings were always a never-never land which defy visual translation , whereas his view of America , however far he sent up his adopted country , had closer links with reality . |
| 12 | Such expressions of wide-eyed optimism were always associated with the New World , or the new nations of the Commonwealth , hardly ever with the Old Country . |
| 13 | The Yellow Book and the Decadents were always associated with Oscar Wilde . |
| 14 | The women in prison who had kids were always dead upset . |
| 15 | Whereas most kids , I do n't know I think it 's just the way they give them too much lead er , I mean our kids were always quiet were n't they when we went out ? |
| 16 | The keys were cut by the dozen at an Oxford Street heel bar , the addresses were always false . |
| 17 | She insists , ‘ during life drawing classes at art school , I used to love doing the bodies , but the heads were always faceless , always anonymous . |
| 18 | She insists , ‘ during life drawing classes at art school , I used to love doing the bodies , but the heads were always faceless , always anonymous . |
| 19 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 20 | Jews were always prone to irrational guilt ; and perhaps especially now . |
| 21 | Here , individuals stood out in sharp focus and Jane 's walks were always enlivened by the indomitable characters she saw and the wry humour of the remarks she overheard . |
| 22 | Whatever he did would play into the hands of Isambard , whose traps were always dual , and could not be evaded . |
| 23 | During the 1950s and 1960s , Plan forecasts for business investment were always well below the outcome . |
| 24 | The stories , to my mind were always better in Bunty than in other comics , and this is probably why it has continued without merger , where others have failed . |
| 25 | Shrewd military gentlemen were always aware of political realities , and upon entry some already had promotion in mind . |
| 26 | Its interests were imperial and its speakers were always men of distinction : members of the Cabinet , colonial Governors and the like . |
| 27 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 28 | Jack Delano was never an invisible photographer — his subjects were always aware that they were being photographed — in fact he had acquired so many friends during the early stages of the project in the 1940s that approaching the same people in the 1980s was a mere formality . |
| 29 | Further analysis according to the treatment administered indicated that the mean fundic argyrophil cell densities were always higher in MEN 1 than in sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients , whatever the treatment , but the difference was never significant ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 30 | My eyes were always better than his . |