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

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1 He quotes examples , such as Ley Rock , near Tintagel , and Bonsall Leys , high up on the Derbyshire moors , to demonstrate that the word did not always refer to pasture .
2 Holidays did not always coincide with hay weather !
3 They did not always meet with success , however ; Parker 's clergy , for example , refused to sign the address .
4 Affinity of conduct and values among this majority did not always make for unity .
5 The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion .
6 There are , however , cases which suggest that the Christian communities who were potential victims of the system did not always look upon devşirme as being wholly evil .
7 To make the model more realistic it is assumed that the trains do not always arrive on time , and that the frequency distribution of the differences between the actual and timetabled arrivals of the trains follows a normal ( Gaussian ) distribution with a mean of zero ( Chapter 3 ) .
8 It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity .
9 What enthusiasts often overlook is that western communities do not always depend on sewer systems .
10 But it is clearly unsatisfactory because illnesses do not always lead to mortality , particularly during childhood and adult life .
11 We 've also remembered again the sometimes potent hurts of time gone by , realising that the passing years do not always lay to rest the stretched emotional reactions which those experiences once forced upon us .
12 The government , even in a minority , is more united than an opposition made up of one majority party and a number of minor parties which do not always act in concert .
13 Admittedly , these are all important areas of concern , but moral reasoning should not be made subservient to what are themselves value laden economic arguments which do not always take into account the totality of the costs they purport to assess .
14 But adjectival modification of a noun does not always result in sub-classification ( cf ‘ stone lion ’ ) .
15 However , exposure to HIV does not always result in transmission of the virus .
16 Such behaviour may be practised by animals of any age , and at different times of year , and sometimes between the same sex , but does not always lead to mating .
17 Life does not always go to plan .
18 However it does not always go by size but depends on the subject , as Foujita 's young girls cost much more , and the year in which it was painted makes a difference in price .
19 But what is possible in theory , does not always happen in practice , and there are many Third World countries that were recently more or less self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs , that are now increasingly dependent on imports .
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