Example sentences of "not always [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Again the terrible horrors which are claimed to be practised by these decadent punks are not always borne out when subjected to close scrutiny .
2 But this pattern is not always borne out by the ethnographic evidence .
3 True , they had behaved coldly to her afterwards but that was probably because they were envious of the success of her tea parties , to which she did not always feel obliged to invite them …
4 Although these are noticeably different from those of the local agricultural population , the newcomer does not always feel it is necessary to adapt to the hitherto accepted mores of the village .
5 They are not always heard .
6 For example , applicants do not always progress through the operation levels in a straightforward manner .
7 The lack of co-ordination between COCOM and other Western bloc organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) meant , however , that trade liberalization did not always progress smoothly .
8 Secondly , despite the impression of the diagrams accompanying the TGAT report pupils do not always progress in a linear fashion but often reach plateaux and can even regress !
9 Consequently , there 's a chummy atmosphere on the record that may not always result int he most demanding , creative working mood , but there 's a fond , happy ambience in the grooves which ai n't bad .
10 However , exposure to HIV does not always result in transmission of the virus .
11 The technique need not always result in tears .
12 But adjectival modification of a noun does not always result in sub-classification ( cf ‘ stone lion ’ ) .
13 It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties .
14 But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery .
15 Keeping the building 's historic aspect was not always achieved and as most of the barns were converted for residential purposes it was necessary to pay careful attention to planning and design to retain the original character , and this was not always done .
16 Ideal standards are not always achieved .
17 The education officer will also pitch his or her talk at a suitable level for the age group concerned , something that is not always achieved by an ordinary guide .
18 But the difficulties inherent in a patchwork quilt of land ownership , and the overwhelming financial problems associated with acquiring land , mean that the best use of land is not always achieved .
19 People should have known that performance does not always match up to promise . ’
20 What one hears said by others does not always match up with our own experience , and we can no longer look round expecting to find clear-cut models of behaviour .
21 Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations !
22 The advantages of village life are supposed to be friendliness and better surroundings ( Clout 1972 ) , although reality does not always match perceptions .
23 Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed .
24 It is felt that resources do not always match every kind of special need that may occur , especially in rural primary schools .
25 Advertising is a key element in the finance and contents of most media but is not always regarded as a medium in itself .
26 Most Government Departments make appointments from professional lawyers , and here , although practical experience is an important qualification , it is not always regarded as essential .
27 Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er
28 Minutes of meetings do not always record all of the details which were discussed .
29 Yet Malaysia has not always gained greatly from the sales of assets , such as shares in its airline and the container terminal at port Klang .
30 Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness .
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