Example sentences of "[verb] not always [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second is that teaching on the subject in engineering courses has not always prepared engineers adequately for this progression .
2 Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men .
3 Land transactions did not always involve documents .
4 In these examples locations close to the sources of ore were of fundamental importance to their development , though distance did not always prevent sites further afield from profiting , as exemplified by pewter manufacture at Camerton and at Lansdown , near Bath , both within easy reach of the Mendips .
5 We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner .
6 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 .
7 However , it was also realised that existing service provision did not always meet clients ' needs .
8 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 .
9 Planning , after all , did not always solve problems ; it could also create them .
10 But men of the late Middle Ages did not always see things that way : for reasons of history , language , sentiment , as well as political expediency , their own independence and , consequently , the continued fragmentation of France , ought to be maintained .
11 There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters .
12 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 .
13 However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed .
14 Direct action did not always take place under the aegis of CND .
15 When we feel unwell in some way or another we do not always recognize stress as the culprit .
16 We are conservers and preservers , maintaining homes and relationships , and we do not always welcome change .
17 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 . ’
18 Official materials and guidelines do not always find favour with parents and governors .
19 ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye .
20 Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ?
21 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 .
22 Admissions do not always take place in ideal circumstances , especially where a crisis has arisen .
23 ( 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 ) .
24 Breastfeeding does not always prevent pregnancy .
25 Policy at national and LEA level is politically motivated and does not always reflect principles of effective management .
26 This thesis does not always do justice even to those artists he cites favourably .
27 Apparent simplicity in living things — as in man-made machinery — does not always spell primitiveness .
28 Evolution does not always make creatures more complex , more intelligent , bigger , better adapted to their environment , or whatever .
29 This scheme does not always divert costs away from the assisted litigant to the Legal Aid Fund — far from it .
30 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 ) .
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