Example sentences of "[noun] was always a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 2 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 3 | The future was always a foreign country , always took him by surprise and was always challenged and met with a charge . |
| 4 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 5 | Snobbery was always an acceptable proof of quality : accent could defeat learning . |
| 6 | Patronage was always a double-edged weapon for the politicians . |
| 7 | End of term was always a tense time , when the inspectors from the African Education Department came out from Salisbury to assess the students ' teaching ability . |
| 8 | Friday was always a busy day . |
| 9 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
| 10 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 11 | Deane was always a threat and two minutes before half-time he claimed his second when he turned in a low cross from Barnes . |
| 12 | Mind you , Hugh was always a bit different from the rest of us . |
| 13 | There , Eva was always a great favourite and able to assume leadership easily . |
| 14 | The road through it to Exeter was always a busy and important highway , and the Honiton Turnpike Trust , set up in 1753 , was one of the first in Devon . |
| 15 | Getting to the village was always a highly dramatic event witnessed by a yelling , clapping audience . |
| 16 | Carl Leaburn was always a threat combining well up front with Alex Dyer . |
| 17 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 18 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
| 19 | Yet Prague was always an international city , whose culture was dependent on native and external traditions alike . |
| 20 | The Chinese state , it was argued , was a rehearsal for ‘ social fascism ’ and capitalist restoration was always a possibility without real reform . |
| 21 | Phil was always a fearless seaman , and I am a very cautious one . |
| 22 | Kate pointed out that Stephen was always a little on the silent side . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mama was always a little put out by my preference for boy 's play and toys , and that grew worse after she married Papa and had three boys for me to play with . |
| 25 | Tax was always a concern with him . |
| 26 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 27 | Peat was always a major wetland commodity . |
| 28 | Getting the slaves across the Atlantic was always a difficult problem for the Royal Africa Company and for all the other traders . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ David Whitaker was always a very sweet man , very jokey about everything , while Mervyn was always so fussy . |