Example sentences of "[is] always [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He s 37 for christs sake and yet he s always getting back to defend .
2 He s always encouraging the team .
3 This is always spun in oil , but seldom has any indication on the cone .
4 As we are using the notion rules are to be seen as having all-or-none character — if a rule governs a kind of action such action is always governed by rule .
5 The number delivered is always echoed and has always correct in all tests .
6 Sister Margaret is always nagging me about my earrings and telling me to take them off , but I 'm not going to .
7 The laibon 's face is always troubled , as though the thoughts which are his special preserve are weighing on him heavily .
8 His inclination is always to go back to those he knows and feels comfortable with .
9 The standards of the best are set by the competition and one 's aim is always to exceed them .
10 So Prince 's impulse is always to dissolve differences and borders .
11 If it is always assumed that they are intellectually inferior , what else is there for them to do … every time teachers are constantly amazed by the fact that in the first year they have at the moment there are two or three really bright West Indian boys , and it 's of constant amazement to people like Mr G … ‘ my goodness he 's bright where does he get it from ’ .
12 Moscow is a grey city ; comfort there is always tied to power , and power too frequently to abuse of power .
13 Similarly , the violence in many sections of our own society today is , in the media , taken as proof of ‘ the animal nature of man ’ which — an insult to many animals — is always understood to be destructively aggressive .
14 ‘ I can not guarantee we shall legislate in the next session since one never can — it is always understood that a final decision is taken nearer the Queen 's speech , ’ Mr Lang said
15 There have been many examples , particularly in pub , club and leisure businesses where false economies have been made and wilting plant material is always noticed by a discerning , paying public .
16 Her satire , however , is always underpinned by an awareness of women 's vulnerability .
17 Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring .
18 This does not mean , however , that the Commissioner is always determined to go to court .
19 Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ .
20 She says Lady West is always telling Miss Honor she 's got no hope with you , and that the poor lass cries herself to sleep most nights . "
21 He is always telling the women to be quiet .
22 However , as he is always telling us , he does not want local government to raise more cash .
23 Nisodemus is always telling you how clever you are .
24 ( d ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the modifier field is always incremented by one , but other arrangements are possible .
25 The answer is , the desire to please oneself is always expanded rather than fulfilled , which means it quickly loses appreciation of the normal and seeks the exotic .
26 ‘ The eldest Lassiter son is always called Hilary , but why not make George his second name ? ’
27 Tom turned his eyes from the paper and started singing the song from Don Giovanni that is always called the Champagne Aria .
28 Ever since , the hall porter is always called Ramsbum .
29 The user image is always called SYS$LIFESPAN:USERTL.EXE ; however , the current values of the logicals LIFESPANNODE and LIFESPANTASK determine which LIFESPAN process is accessed by the image , not the command symbol typed by the user .
30 The suspicious customer is always looking for the ‘ catch ’ .
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