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

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1 Even their colonies were not always reserved to the sovereign nation : the French imposed a close protective system on theirs , but those of Great Britain were good markets for the Germans .
2 The last word does not always go to the fastest gun .
3 Instead we have a different speculation : since learners do not always conform to the natural order ( the argument goes ) , there must be an unnatural order disrupting it .
4 The Church does not always use to the full all the gifts that women have .
5 BGS operations are not always restricted to the marine environment : during February , a surface-tow boomer survey was made in support of a multiuniversity research project on the environmental history of Malham Tam in water depths never more than four metres .
6 ‘ Twelve months later the conclusion is that the race does n't always go to the swift — even if it is the way the bookmaker bets , ’ commented Mike Gaston , the station 's managing director , who took over running the company just a year ago .
7 Cos you see , perhaps it did n't get to that teacher , you see , that 's what happens , the letters do n't always get to the right people .
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