Example sentences of "not always [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
2 | Fabrics are not always given a particular name but are often referred to just by the fibre content , e.g. , cotton or polyester print . |
3 | Here we must pause to acknowledge that Morgenthau does not always advocate a scientific approach as he did in Politics among Nations . |
4 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
5 | the type of department where the student was registered did not always give a good indication of the research area being covered ; |
6 | Customers thinking about buying a product do not always give a clear indication about what they require . |
7 | Similarly , it becomes obvious that such reception does not always represent a direct appropriation of the consumer into a pre-given framework but is mediated by other , varied interpretative assumptions associated with other social institutions and values ( which may be mutually contradictory ) . |
8 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
9 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |
10 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
11 | A recent Which ? report confirms that we do not always get a good deal from British sausages . |
12 | However , words need not always have a consistent meaning attributed to them : the context may show that the same word bears two different senses even when it is repeated in the same section . |
13 | However , the injured party does not always have a free choice as the law lays down rules determining and limiting the scope of remedies . |
14 | Informal structures and local spaces for education with people ‘ doing it themselves ’ did not always produce a new definition of practical knowledge and/or a radical content . |
15 | This method does not always yield a unique result . |
16 | Individual properties and relations have been with us since Aristotle , and have had the support of such diverse philosophers as Peirce and Stout , but they have not always got a good name . |
17 | That will not always seem a preferable alternative to the a cappella practice of English cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels , nurtured in a context ( the daily preparation of liturgical services ) requiring certain skills that we may imagine any medieval chapel singer would recognize as his own , whatever the damage that the 19th century may have done to ‘ the English cathedral style ’ and its historical continuity . |
18 | The use of apparatus and toys does not always provide a specific end product , but the experiences of building , matching , sharing , comparing and taking apart can all lead towards mathematical concepts . |
19 | Even during his triumphant progress in the summer , the doctor did not always receive a unanimous reception . |