Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [is] always " in BNC.

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1 Some people who have an elderly parent to live with them are heard to say , ‘ We 're very fond of her of course , but the trouble with Mother is that she 's always there ! ’
2 ‘ It seems to me that she 's always over there . ’
3 and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week
4 She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress .
5 What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ?
6 One of the most wonderful things about religion is that it 's always there waiting for us .
7 The rechargeable base can be left on trickle charge indefinitely , so that it 's always ready to use .
8 The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent .
9 Whenever a piece of paper gets screwed up and thrown away like that it 's always a vital clue . ’
10 Now I , they could , erm one thing that I found b b b b picked up from doing my own reading and studying was that it 's always good to go through with the customer step by step which is to a certain extent what we do do
11 If you accept the amendment of er Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh , he would say it set an upper and a lower limit o o of the size of erm o of police authority and the chances are then that the number will gradually i inflate so that it 's always the highest number , that is that is obtained .
12 You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars .
13 It does n't prove that it 's always true , but it 's a jolly good case where it clearly , I think , is true .
14 That 's why it 's so tempting to think that it 's always women erm because power is in the hands of men on the whole , especially in this university .
15 Before the polys uncork the champagne , it should be added that it is always dangerous to infer a trend from one year 's figures .
16 It is the nature of this process that it is always being overtaken by further changes in medical practice and fashion and public demand .
17 But I said that it is always a good sign when things go wrong before the night .
18 To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised .
19 When you transfer your hands from boom to mast , remember that it is always the back hand that leaves the boom first .
20 You can learn so much from simply watching their actions and reactions that it is always worth sacrificing fishing time to spend an hour or so studying their behaviour .
21 It assumes that it is always possible to develop yourself , not just your outward behaviour but also your inner thought processes and feelings .
22 This curious truth about language is that it is always perfect : when a user of the language fails to express himself clearly it is because some existing linguistic resource is not known to him , not because such a resource does not exist .
23 It needs constant update so that it is always a ‘ living ’ document .
24 It is , of course , desirable they should never be overworked or overstressed , and you can ensure that this does not happen by having a sufficient number so that it is always possible to rest some while using others .
25 The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian .
26 The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered !
27 The advantage the nationalist rhetoric and the nation statehood confers is that it is always legitimate , liquidating the nationals of other nation states , particularly in contention over a piece of territory .
28 As well as pointing out biases and gaps in the way these ideas have been applied , I will be trying to demonstrate the more general point that it is always problematic to treat language use as a direct reflection of social identity .
29 The title of Chapter 3 , ‘ The politics of variation ’ , was intended to underscore the central point about sex difference research : that it is always undertaken for political reasons , and has traditionally been used to justify sex discrimination and exclusionary practices , making them seem natural and inevitable .
30 ‘ Mr Larkin writes here that it is always true that the idea for a poem and a snatch or line of it come simultaneously .
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