Example sentences of "[noun pl] can not always [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Struggles about language are long drawn-out : speakers can not always be brought to see the point of innovations , still less the virtue in them . |
| 2 | You may need to do some lateral thinking , as savings can not always be related to the size of the cheques you write out each month . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the indirect ecological effects can not always be foreseen . |
| 4 | — senses can not always be derived by affix-stripping , e.g. ’ conductivity ’ derives from ’ conduct ’ , but corresponds only to the electrical sense ( one would not talk of the ’ conductivity ’ of an orchestra ) ; |
| 5 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 6 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |
| 7 | While uniformity of view between the managing partners can not always be achieved every effort has to be made to avoid discrepancies . |
| 8 | To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can not always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without Proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition . |
| 9 | Externally the palazzo is genuinely four-sided , I say ‘ genuinely ’ because although all buildings are four-sided ( unless they are triangular ) , each of the four sides can not always be viewed and walked along as they can here . |
| 10 | Conversely , if spatial resolution is optimized in the sense that opposing inputs are drawn from neighbouring cones , then the surround inputs can not always be drawn from a single class of cone . |