Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landowners , like the land-holders or Gamoroi of Syracuse , were a feudal nobility who were not always on easy terms with their kings . |
| 2 | But the interior meant less — though it was not always to be so — than the grounds , the lake , the woods . |
| 3 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 4 | No , no , you said that it was , you said that because it was not always in there maybe because the socket 's too shallow |
| 5 | But it was not always like this . |
| 6 | Of course , it was not always like that . |
| 7 | It was not always like that and it need not be like that now . ’ |