Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn . |
| 2 | I am not always against high-risk investments : I am against this one . ’ |
| 3 | Reports are not always about revolutions and that 's important ! |
| 4 | They are not always on the best of terms with the carters with whom they have to deal , and threats of actual violence do not tend to the increase of business . |
| 5 | And it is better if you have something you are allowed to wake them up about as well , so that you are not always on the receiving end . |
| 6 | Their settlements are not always on time . |
| 7 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 8 | The wartime Hallé ensemble and intonation are not always of the purest quality , and despite excellent remastering , the mono sound of Baxi 's Third Symphony was never exactly ingratiating , although an amazing amount of detail does register — not least the gleaming anvil stroke in the first movement . |
| 9 | The men who come to the colonies from France are not always of the best quality . |
| 10 | But encouraging and rewarding reliance are not always of decisive importance ; it is sometimes better to leave some matter unregulated by convention in order to allow the play of independent judgment both by judges and by the public in anticipation of what judges might do . |
| 11 | Unfortunately such developments are not always under our control . |
| 12 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |
| 13 | The choices we make as to what jobs we do , and how often we do them , are not always in our own best interests . |
| 14 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 15 | This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other . |
| 16 | Although produced by computer , the conditions are not always in a set standard form . |
| 17 | They 're not always to be trusted in the long term , you know . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not always like this . " |
| 19 | ‘ I write as a result of some inner compulsion , ’ he once remarked , ‘ and I 'm not always in control of it . ’ |
| 20 | Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it . |
| 21 | People are n't always off work . |
| 22 | And the conversations are n't always about tennis . |
| 23 | That 's wonderful cos families are n't always like that , are they ? |
| 24 | The landowners , like the land-holders or Gamoroi of Syracuse , were a feudal nobility who were not always on easy terms with their kings . |
| 25 | Popes were not always above pawning their tiaras . |
| 26 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 27 | The Clash were n't always into combat fatigues . |
| 28 | " You were n't always in a gym tunic . |
| 29 | Folk were n't always like their words . |
| 30 | But they were n't always like that . |