Example sentences of "always a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is always a draught through glass . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because of the Repeater Hand Gun 's innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit . |
| 4 | Because of its innovative construction and tendency to jam , a roll of a 1 is always a miss regardless of the BS of the firer or any modifiers to hit . |
| 5 | The data studied in discourse analysis is always a fragment of discourse and the discourse analyst always has to decide where the fragment begins and ends . |
| 6 | Always a champion of monogamy , she is cooking up some fancy new diseases . |
| 7 | no no , not a central pole , no it was just always a boss . |
| 8 | Cecilia sat in her comfortable drawing room on the sofa-bed that was always a sofa and never a bed — ‘ But you 've got five bedrooms , Ma , ’ said Tina who had her eye on it — and turned on the television at twenty seconds to six . |
| 9 | She was always a tomboy like you , though I dare say she has changed now she 's grown up . ’ |
| 10 | This was always a melton overcoat . |
| 11 | He seemed to have come to terms with the end of his career but the fact he never spoke about his feelings was always a worry . ’ |
| 12 | It 's always a worry leaving the house or flat empty when you go on holiday . |
| 13 | And it 's always a worry when you do n't know what 's going on . |
| 14 | Always a worry . |
| 15 | It is always a relief to cover the white paper ! |
| 16 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
| 17 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 18 | There was always a scramble to obtain them after the meeting . |
| 19 | But the idea of a tax as some kind of entry ticket for citizenship was always a nonsense : too many are able to dodge paying it . |
| 20 | Well the reason it 's put there is simply to remind you that the guarantee is always a plus or an extra . |
| 21 | I was always a rebel with many causes and I paid the price accordingly . |
| 22 | There 's always a chill wind blowing off that river . ’ |
| 23 | She is almost always a virgin … . |
| 24 | Always a gambler , the colourful Sir James won fame and a £750 million fortune on Wall Street in the '80s . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , that 's not surprising , he was always a wizard with wireless . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 27 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 28 | It is always a help to know when precisely a contract is concluded , for example , and of possible legal liabilities against which it is advisable to insure . |
| 29 | A flat working surface is always a help . |
| 30 | There was the charming Denis whose paintings were always a delight . |