Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] always [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ .
2 Unfortunately , front and side gardens in urban areas are always magnets for litter louts .
3 Proposed ideas are always statements such as ‘ It 's 11 o'clock .
4 Certain corries are always favourites for dropping calves and , if known , should be avoided at that time .
5 Some writers would not accept the proposition that the best people to assist with legal problems are always lawyers .
6 Suggestions are always questions such as ‘ It 's 11 o'clock , shall we break for coffee ? ’
7 The text written with a generally light touch ( surely some unintentional humour : ‘ Some people consider Rego a feminist because her main characters are always women and they are usually up to mischief ’ ) but the artist 's biographies are fairly useless and the glossary too short to bother with .
8 State regiments are always infantry , and may be equipped in a variety of different ways with different types of armour and weapons .
9 This never in fact takes place , in that the fields are always sites of struggle for the stake of more or less autonomization .
10 In some tree frog species certain individuals always call while others are always satellites .
11 Within any one shell the energies are always E s < E p < E d … , while the principal quantum number n still orders orbitals of the same value of l , so that E 1s < E 2s < E 3s … ,
12 Bullies are always cowards .
13 Bullies are always cowards .
14 Quantum objects do not act as carriers of classical quantities such as position and momentum ( their wavefunctions are not usually eigenstates of these observables ) but they do carry the potentiality for such quantities ( their wavefunctions are always superpositions of such eigenstates ) .
15 So far , so good ; but the results of actual measurements are always numbers , not abstract things like operators .
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