Example sentences of "not always [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 2 | Moving premises does not always create a breach of the contract . |
| 3 | In London historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses , sometimes but not always accepting a fee ; commissions for articles are independent decisions by editors . |
| 4 | Elasticity is important : I do not always prefer a line which stretches the least . |
| 5 | You will not always get a reply but you may be surprised at how often you do . |
| 6 | Her remarkable statement in an interview , ‘ I am the Cabinet rebel ’ suggests that , if she gave a lead , she did not always have a majority of followers . |
| 7 | It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care . |
| 8 | He did not always have a voice , but he always had a point of view . |
| 9 | You will not always have a book available to you . |
| 10 | Such harassment did not always need a fighting patrol 's strength : Lieutenant J.A . |
| 11 | GLCABS , however , which has several staff formally trained in recruitment , does not always include a member of the management committee . |
| 12 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |