Example sentences of "[not/n't] always [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably as they settled and built , their life was more integrated into than separate from that of local communities , not always to the improvement of either , as the Visitors of Bayham found in 1472 when the Canons , life style had led several to abscond and the buildings lay ruinous .
2 The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention .
3 But unrealized potential was exploited as well as people and European economic intervention was not always at the expense of the non-European .
4 Not only in Victoria and Quebec , but in South Africa and in every American state liability has been established in negligence for the consequences of pre-natal injury — though not always on the basis of the same reasoning or principle .
5 I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working .
6 In the United Kingdom there has been extensive discussion of the ‘ quango ’ phenomenon , but not always in the context of corporatist theory .
7 It is not always in the interest of farmers or agents to go directly to companies with an interest in selling equipment or attempt to design a system themselves .
8 But fantasies , not always in the form of a coherent narrative , may irrupt or intervene ; one can be plagued , dominated or obsessed by them .
9 Defence is n't always at the top of the political agenda and in periods of long time peace as we have now enjoyed , people tend to forget the dangers are still genuine and still there .
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