Example sentences of "always [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |
| 2 | ‘ To an extent , but the song always aroused a lot of interest and it seemed to capture people 's imaginations . |
| 3 | Quite what the Faulkner/SDLP executive might have achieved will always remain a matter of speculation . |
| 4 | Yes , I think we may be using the , because the opposing team always bring a lot of people and we never have any supporters , somehow , so erm , er we 're very pleased if people who sort of spread that about a bit . |
| 5 | Cabinet business always involves a mixture of political and specialist ( or administrative ) considerations . |
| 6 | Thus both the case law and the academic commentary displays considerable diversity of opinion on whether , for example , the application of statutory terms to facts always involves a question of law or not . |
| 7 | A Task Force of the APA 's Division of the Psychology of Women , for instance , has recognized , as feminists in other social and natural sciences have done , that feminists ' position in the mainstream discipline always involves a degree of marginality ( Lott 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 9 | He was in Hollywood by 1915 in time to see Griffith at the height of his powers , and in a sense Vidor was always to remain a representative of the Griffith era ; he was to become Hollywood 's token Progressive in a period when the main energies of that phenomenon had been exhausted . |
| 10 | The significant feature of this use is the fact that the infinitive always evokes a type of behaviour which is characteristic of someone or something . |
| 11 | Christine and Doc D always make a point of changing for dinner , however late in the day . |
| 12 | However the message soon got home to me so that today , nearly seventy years on , I always make a point of being early . |
| 13 | And I always make a point of doing as I please . |
| 14 | The only thing that we do , and we 've always done it without Neighbourhood Watch , we always make a point of telling one another when we 're gon na be away for any period of time . |
| 15 | It always kindled a glow of security and peace when he called her that , however casually . |
| 16 | Netting always produces a number of damaged fish , which come to the surface dead or dying , and these provide easy prey for the eagles and cormorants . |
| 17 | First of all , unlike the -ing form , the infinitive always produces a representation of an event seen as a whole , i.e. either as a single instant of a state-like event or as a movement from the beginning limit to the end of an action-like one ( cf. |
| 18 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 19 | Their answer , briefly , was that reason had always contained a measure of irrationality , which , despite its best intentions , had led to its involvement with tyranny and domination : ‘ Enlightenment is totalitarian ’ . |
| 20 | Whatever its weaknesses , Switzerland always has a couple of aces up the sleeve . |
| 21 | If you are considering buying a new outfit for the occasion Carita House always has a supply of Medau Blue garments . |
| 22 | Carbon , for example , always has a valency of 4 whereas its oxidation number varies from -4 to +4 . |
| 23 | GLCABS , however , which has several staff formally trained in recruitment , does not always include a member of the management committee . |
| 24 | But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’ |
| 25 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 26 | Slackness in the official compilation and in-between-election-activity by the Labour Party has always carried a penalty of up to 10 per cent for Labour , but what emerged from a comparison of the electorates of 1987 and 1992 in the six Edinburgh constituencies was a drop of 14,737 electors . |
| 27 | She reveals that she has always carried a photograph of Levy in her handbag and still does so today . |
| 28 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 29 | Then he remembered Billy always carried a packet of three . |
| 30 | A face that was poignantly familiar , as if she 'd always carried a picture of him in her heart . |