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

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1 However , requests for admission are not always supported by adequate information , which makes it difficult to assess whether admission is appropriate ( Bastiaansen , 1976 ; Schelvis , 1977 ; Knorth , 1987 ) .
2 This is a field in which speculation and clearly attested fact are not always kept in distinct compartments .
3 The most common fault is that important features are not always revealed by these methods , which can lead to the excavation being sited wrongly .
4 Commercial battles are not always won on technical merit , and at present X Windows is probably winning .
5 Car thefts are not always committed by determined professionals , most cars are stolen by casual thieves who take advantage of an easy opportunity .
6 Unlike mammals and other higher classes of animals , marine invertebrates are not always restricted to one method of reproduction and many have a number of different ways of procreating themselves .
7 They were not always welcomed by working-class mothers , who resented what they saw as intrusion into their lives and the sometimes patronizing advice on childcare from women who were often childless and who certainly had no experience of the difficulties of rearing children in poverty and in the inescapable dirt of poor homes with inadequate water supplies .
8 I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength .
9 Mr Lawson said he had always played straight with people , which was why the Government was so respected , ‘ even if it is not always loved by all the people ’ .
10 Our final recommendation is a kite that is classified as a ‘ Box ’ type but , due to its multi-triangulated panels , is not always recognised as such .
11 The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony .
12 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 .
13 But it is not always seen in this way .
14 The demand is not always expressed in consistent terms .
15 This is not always appreciated by those who point to this success compared to the systems in use at the larger institutions .
16 It should perhaps be noted , however , that the advantage for phonological coding is not always shown by good readers .
17 But while corporately the bank has adopted a positive approach , Mosson admits this is not always reflected in individual behaviour .
18 Breeding was proved on a total of 36 waters in the period , most of which may be regularly occupied , although the records show annual fluctuations and breeding is not always proved at all known breeding sites each year .
19 Recruitment is not always effected by mass-acting pheromones .
20 The government secrecy sometimes extended to the people on the plant — the need to know was not always appreciated by those at the top — and the most serious accident was caused by a poorly conceived process change determined by another team .
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