Example sentences of "[not/n't] always [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , solicitors are eligible for appointment to the legal departments of Government Departments as described in connection with the Bar , though not always to the head positions .
2 A demand is made , often not explicit to the child ( and not always to the experimenter either ) , to which only a certain response is acceptable .
3 The advice they gave was not always to the sovereign 's liking as the famous conflicts between James I and Chief Justice Coke showed .
4 Inevitably as they settled and built , their life was more integrated into than separate from that of local communities , not always to the improvement of either , as the Visitors of Bayham found in 1472 when the Canons , life style had led several to abscond and the buildings lay ruinous .
5 ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn .
6 The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention .
7 But unrealized potential was exploited as well as people and European economic intervention was not always at the expense of the non-European .
8 These are high-risk investments , a fact often not made clear on the telephone , not always on the contract note .
9 Rather like his brand new sponsored Mercedes , in fact ; but one of a strange series of incidents reported in the press , and not always on the cricket pages , was the fact that Beefy 's car was broken into and the radio stolen the night before he scored a century .
10 Not only in Victoria and Quebec , but in South Africa and in every American state liability has been established in negligence for the consequences of pre-natal injury — though not always on the basis of the same reasoning or principle .
11 Leadership is not always with the chairman , but tends to be shared as appropriate .
12 This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another .
13 Quite a few courses have resulted in the formation ( not always by the library admittedly ) of groups which might generically be termed as ‘ Friends of the library ’ which may become formalized and then act as ‘ lobbyists ’ for the public library in that area .
14 I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working .
15 Well I did , I took it , I took it out and said , alright when I went and enquired , I said well I would normally have a cheque book now cos I 'm not always in the bank , and I had this slip to say I do n't need one will come automatically he said oh yes , but that breaking down is hopeless , then I should fill it in now and I 'll take it .
16 It is not always in the right and we know that it is not .
17 In the United Kingdom there has been extensive discussion of the ‘ quango ’ phenomenon , but not always in the context of corporatist theory .
18 It is not always in the interest of farmers or agents to go directly to companies with an interest in selling equipment or attempt to design a system themselves .
19 But fantasies , not always in the form of a coherent narrative , may irrupt or intervene ; one can be plagued , dominated or obsessed by them .
20 The oldest housing is not always near the City centre .
21 Capital Radio , the other UK giant of the independents , has already split its frequencies , and before long all nine quoted independent stations are expected do so , albeit not always around the clock .
22 Defence is n't always at the top of the political agenda and in periods of long time peace as we have now enjoyed , people tend to forget the dangers are still genuine and still there .
23 Next Friday when you go to get your money , cos I was n't always with the collier , mostly I was on the day work .
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