Example sentences of "[verb] not always [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 From these conflicting interests emerged representation that did not always reflect the majority interest .
2 Even when they were secured , performances at court did not always bring the rewards Leopold hoped for :
3 Yet if his ideas and perceptions did not always reach the page , they undoubtedly entered the minds and imaginations of the many lucky enough to converse with him .
4 Measures to deal with problems did not always meet the underlying needs : sometimes they ignored them , sometimes they reflected total ignorance of them .
5 As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology .
6 Indirect limitations gave way to direct in Commissioners of Customs and Excise v. Cure and Deeley Ltd. in which Sachs J. found that legislation empowering tax commissioners to make regulations as they deemed necessary did not always make the commissioners the sole judge of the extent of their powers .
7 The visitors ' committee did not always support the workhouse master .
8 These severe measures did not always produce the desired results .
9 The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government .
10 The manner of a bishop 's election could itself affect the whole of his ensuing episcopate , if factions became too firmly entrenched ; peace did not always follow the elevation of the successful candidate .
11 the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis .
12 But Branson always regarded licensing deals as unsatisfactory ; in the first place , the licensee could pick and choose which records it wanted to release , and did not always have the ‘ emotional commitment ’ to making them hits .
13 Garrick joined , and Adam Smith , thereby ensuring that Johnson did not always have the discourse his own way .
14 An essay or a lecture on some general theme did not always have the required effect , as some of the otherwise magisterial addresses delivered when he was a world-figure tend to show .
15 ‘ Democracy ’ , rule by the people , did not always have the good press it enjoys today .
16 The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management .
17 Hosts did not always know the names of such guests and considered it impolite to ask , at least until the meal was over .
18 And , despite the huge increase in black elected officials , the ambitions of African-American politicians do not always serve the needs of their poorest constituents .
19 Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik .
20 People do not always observe the principle , of course , but where a speaker flouts it , the hearer will suspect she has a reason .
21 Not everybody believes a profusion of summits are a good investment of prime ministerial time : the results do not always justify the hours and the nervous energy spent .
22 The distance learning materials do not always reach the students when needed , and a survey indicated that they rarely received more than one visit a year from their supervisor because of the shortage of transport .
23 If there are structural weaknesses in the German constitution and German political life , they perhaps lie halfway between these two remarks , namely that there is an excessive domination of the parties in the political process who fail to bring political discussion sufficiently into the open and consequently do not always offer the electorate a real choice .
24 do not always give the job to the best of a bad bunch , but investigate where the recruiting methods and job specification may have gone wrong and start again ;
25 Be warned ; legal cases do not always go the householder 's way , so put away the shotgun and do not get angry when people drop litter on your front lawn .
26 The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned .
27 Football club balance sheets do not always show the full value of the assets : 48% do not revalue land and buildings .
28 There does , however , appear to be some confusion among various commentators as to Bukharin 's basic position : some , such as Itoh , place him in the underconsumptionist school , while others place him — correctly — in the disproportionality school ; but the latter , e.g. Sweezy , Mandel , Day , do not always attribute the same meaning to this .
29 Ultimately , this responsibility must rest with the electorate , but they do not always receive the information necessary to make judgements .
30 It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this .
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