Example sentences of "always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The amount of bone present in assemblages of prey , and the species representation , vary from predator to predator but are always biased with respect to the community from which they came . |
2 | Relative coverage of Labour and Conservative was always biased towards the Conservative government but the degree of bias increased sharply ( it tripled ) in the fourth week of the campaign . |
3 | ‘ I can always paint over it , ’ said Daisy hastily . |
4 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
5 | The microphones in a radio studio always tend to be large and rather obtrusive . |
6 | ‘ You always tend to business first ? ’ |
7 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
8 | While a white working-class female psychologist may take on a new professional identity which erases her class background , a black woman psychologist of any class is always distanced from such an identity by her ‘ race , . |
9 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
10 | She pretended ( Caro was sure it was pretence ) to be particularly worried about the two poor fatherless children , and always asked after them . |
11 | He was a tall man with dark hair that was always hidden under a hat . |
12 | And above all , watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
15 | Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war . |
16 | Prep schools have no secure catchment area , they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival . |
17 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
18 | While Gerry Taggart , Alan McDonald , Nigel Worthington and Mal Donaghy provide the basis of a sturdy defence , success has always depended on breakaway goals as well . |
19 | In those forms which have always depended on group production , there is not only a contrast with these basically individual uses of the immediate means of production , but , just as crucially , a range of developing relationships , many directly related to changes in the means of production , which amount , finally , to a further qualitative distinction . |
20 | The practice of medicine has always depended on nursing , and the therapy professions have grown up to supply new kinds of skills . |
21 | Their way of life has always depended on the snow , the weather , the clouds and the human strength and frailties of their clients . |
22 | ‘ I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ’ , says Blanche DuBois in Streetcar . |
23 | AEA 's success has always depended on being at the forefront of science and technology . |
24 | The poor countries of the South have always depended on selling raw materials — anything from palm oil to iron ore — to the industrialized North . |
25 | The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals . |
26 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
27 | Some years ago there was a vet , who besides always smelling of methylated spirits , would always conscientiously swab a horse 's neck with meths before giving an injection . |
28 | Descending broken rock requires a nimble style , with the emphasis on sure footwork and the hands always placed for balance and as security in the event of a slip . |
29 | Over this time we have continuously expanded and developed our range , with the highest priority always placed on value for money and customer care . |
30 | MR MAJOR 'S Cabinet is a careful balancing act that reflects the emphasis he has always placed on party unity . |