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

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1 Consequently , there 's a chummy atmosphere on the record that may not always result int he most demanding , creative working mood , but there 's a fond , happy ambience in the grooves which ai n't bad .
2 But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery .
3 Simplicity need not always mean economy , but it has traditionally created a bias towards the single-purpose system , which allows concentration on point-design performance , as opposed to the multipurpose system common to Western inventories , which demands complicated and sophisticated design solutions .
4 One can not always control moisture content but one can generally arrange for ventilation and this is usually a sufficient preventative .
5 When we feel unwell in some way or another we do not always recognize stress as the culprit .
6 We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner .
7 Apparent simplicity in living things — as in man-made machinery — does not always spell primitiveness .
8 This thesis does not always do justice even to those artists he cites favourably .
9 We are conservers and preservers , maintaining homes and relationships , and we do not always welcome change .
10 Traditionally terraced fields in Nepal can not always prevent water running off fields and causing floods ( below ) .
11 Breastfeeding does not always prevent pregnancy .
12 It is well recognised that opioid analgesics do not always relieve pain , and there are already several unsatisfactory ways in which such pain is described , including ‘ opioid insensitive , ’ ‘ opioid non-responsive , ’ and ‘ opioid resistant . ’
13 The influence of the adult experimenter on the child 's performance is one that has concerned Donaldson , who has shown convincingly that the child does not always interpret adult meanings as intended ( McGarrigle and Donaldson , 1975 ) .
14 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING REASONABLE No one wants departing employees to take the firm 's best clients with them , but courts will not always uphold restraint clauses
15 When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me .
16 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
17 ( In terms of spending power , this is , of course , hardly logical — but the laws of supply and demand do not always produce common-sense effects ) .
18 Official materials and guidelines do not always find favour with parents and governors .
19 Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources .
20 Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’
21 ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye .
22 There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters .
23 Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ?
24 Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND .
25 Furthermore , although delinquency is invariably a group activity it does not always take place within organised delinquent gangs , which is the basis of Cohen 's theoretical approach .
26 Admissions do not always take place in ideal circumstances , especially where a crisis has arisen .
27 Many of the benefits of programmes , or decision units , were unable to be quantified so that the ranking process could not always take place .
28 It is one of the quirks of modern society that even when acts are passed by Parliament and signed by the Sovereign , they do not always take effect .
29 But while social responsibility generally moves broadly in step with societal changes , the law does not always keep pace with society and its new standards , and consequently may be considerably out of phase with present society .
30 In losing Law the party had lost a conciliator ; in electing Austen it had gained an inflexible leader who would not always put party first .
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