Example sentences of "[noun] always [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 2 | But Richard Dunwoody always appeared to be going the best and Baydon Star was a comfortable four-length winner , with the third horse Mailcom 30 lengths away . |
| 3 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 4 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 5 | The likeliest alternative always seemed to be worse . |
| 6 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 7 | February always seems to be the busiest month for me . |
| 8 | Arabs always seem to be either in a great hurry or without any sense of time at all . |
| 9 | Personal appearances always seemed to be a bone of contention . |
| 10 | It may not be the part nearest the house , though this is where sitting out areas always tend to be made . |
| 11 | Back in his hometown of Cork , Fergus always seemed to be floating in the wake of the other noted Cork scrum-half , Michael Bradley . |
| 12 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 13 | As one friend notes : ‘ Sarah always had to be the best at everything . |
| 14 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 15 | The studios and corridors at Cardiff always seemed to be full of pretty girls . |
| 16 | The Russians always seem to be with us . |
| 17 | Structural change always needs to be seen in its environmental context . |
| 18 | Do rewards always have to be given ? |
| 19 | The kitchen always seems to be the first room in which you run out of space . |
| 20 | The whole area of Clacton always seems to be a tidy and a very pleasant town to visit . |
| 21 | ‘ Experimenters always have to be alert ’ . |
| 22 | Doctors and nutritionists always seem to be telling us to eat less of the foods we enjoy . |
| 23 | This shift from a conflictual dyadic political structure is not simply a question of historical change , of the recent appearance of ‘ minorities ’ : after all the slave was already constituted simultaneously according to different groups ( for example male or female ) , the Lumpenproletariat always had to be excluded . |
| 24 | In many ways it was like the staff common room in a school where institutionalization of this nature always seems to be very strong . |
| 25 | Climbs of this nature always seem to be peculiarly technical , despite the lack of any well-defined moves . |
| 26 | The worst moment always seems to be immediately before you step into the unknown . |
| 27 | ‘ The guitars always seem to be drowning him out , ’ she complained , with some justification . |
| 28 | As Rioch suggests ( see p. 7 at the beginning of this chapter ) , women psychologists always need to be better to be equal . |
| 29 | Any birthday celebrations always seem to be over as swiftly as they begin , and the anticipation is probably just as important as the event itself , but a pressed flower picture can serve as a lovely memento . |
| 30 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |