Example sentences of "[verb] not always [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 2 | We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The recording catches the players rather forcefully , and the balance between guitar and string quartet is not always well managed : that is not the engineer 's fault so much as Boccherini 's who did not always judge texture as well as he might . |
| 5 | There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 8 | Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND . |
| 9 | When we feel unwell in some way or another we do not always recognize stress as the culprit . |
| 10 | We are conservers and preservers , maintaining homes and relationships , and we do not always welcome change . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Official materials and guidelines do not always find favour with parents and governors . |
| 13 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 14 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Admissions do not always take place in ideal circumstances , especially where a crisis has arisen . |
| 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 | Breastfeeding does not always prevent pregnancy . |
| 19 | This thesis does not always do justice even to those artists he cites favourably . |
| 20 | Apparent simplicity in living things — as in man-made machinery — does not always spell primitiveness . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … ’ |
| 24 | It should be pointed out however that the to infinitive construction does not always imply non-entailment of the truth of the complement , as Riddle 's comments above might give one to understand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 27 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |