Example sentences of "[modal v] not always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are other contributory factors , for example , the close identity between each medical school and ‘ its ’ hospital which leads to having specialties in every hospital and the well-intentioned efforts of trustees of ‘ teaching hospitals and special health authorities who marshal sometimes huge wealth in support of priorities which may not always accord with the health needs of the population . ’ |
| 2 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 3 | A religious man may not always succeed in living in accordance with his ideal but that does not mean that he has abandoned his ideal . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State is given the authority to sanction road and highway authorities ' schemes , which may not always fall within the regulations . |
| 5 | In such cases the draftsman should provide for the costs of periodic maintenance and inspection to be recoverable from the tenants , for they may not always fall within a provision to pay the cost of repairs . |
| 6 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 7 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 8 | To you these might not always seem like severe difficulties , but for young people problems like these can loom large . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman , Mr Charles Kennedy , quoted a letter from the Department of Health which admitted patients were in a weak position to make meaningful comparisons or to shop around , so the NHS could not always rely on competition to make sure that its internal and external markets worked effectively . |
| 10 | But this is not to say that the great were the only people who mattered politically ; and they could not always rely on their followers . |
| 11 | If the training set also includes cats , dogs and cows , then we could not always ask for these values . |
| 12 | One area in which the CEGB could n't always rely on support was the media . |
| 13 | The technique need not always result in tears . |
| 14 | Incestuous feeling need not always figure in such a situation but there is no doubt that it often does . |
| 15 | The ideological nature of social contracts means that they need not always correspond to individual self-interest . |
| 16 | Although this centre presented a coherent picture in which the city was divided into discrete neighbourhoods , residents would not always identify with these boundaries . |
| 17 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 18 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 19 | Everything was wrong with him — he would n't always come to meetings and when he did he was ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 20 | You ca n't always rely on a partner to do that for you . |
| 21 | In general , P-traps and S-traps are the best type to fit ; bottle traps , although compact and neat , ca n't always cope with large water flows and block more easily . |
| 22 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 23 | ‘ This one sounds quite promising , but of course I must see him first — one ca n't always tell from the application , he added primly . |
| 24 | ‘ But you ca n't always travel with the apple of your eye . ’ |
| 25 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 26 | She likes the company of young people and finds they often talk to her about things they ca n't always discuss at home . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't always apologize for the past . |
| 28 | The C.E. G.B. case demonstrates that consent will not always protect against possible criminal charges being brought . |
| 29 | The sun will not always shine on you . |
| 30 | At the same time , both the White House and the State Department recognise that Soviet foreign policy will be driven by Soviet national interests , and that these will not always coincide with America 's . |