Example sentences of "not always [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand . |
| 2 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 3 | When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared . |
| 4 | There 's no way of telling how tawdry the trinket contained inside might be and the tackiness is not always related to the price . |
| 5 | Moreover , the two aspects of the debate were not always synchronised in the same people or at the same time . |
| 6 | Sufficient time is not always given to the study of the basic principles and the proper spacing and placing of the movements . |
| 7 | At intervals in the Costing Accounts is the above category which relates to outgoing expenses and not always connected with the running of the mine . |
| 8 | The agency brief is believed to have stressed the need to educate potential consumers about the costs of healthcare for the elderly which is not always covered by the Government or conventional insurance policies . |
| 9 | Even their colonies were not always reserved to the sovereign nation : the French imposed a close protective system on theirs , but those of Great Britain were good markets for the Germans . |
| 10 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |
| 11 | Margaret Beckett , the other half of the Treasury team , is a stalwart of the press conference platform and the Labour politician most respected by the Conservatives , although she has not always inspired on the hustings . |
| 12 | It is this which makes a patterned woven carpet something special , a point not always understood by the customer . |
| 13 | There must , therefore , be a mental element in the " unlawful act " , though this proposition is not always stated in the cases ( see for example , Newbury , where it is difficult to state what the unlawful act was ) . |
| 14 | Outside the TUC , individual trade unions have their own education programmes which are not always hampered by the same constraints . |
| 15 | We should , however , recollect that one of the reasons for the strength of the City of London is that it has consistently followed a very open policy , which is not always followed on the continent and elsewhere . |
| 16 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 17 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 18 | The relationship between dealer and client is not always divorced from the occult . |
| 19 | Nonconformity 's dependence on laissez faire and , in the case of Methodism , on competition among five separate bodies , had not always worked for the best and there had been a lot of wasted effort . |
| 20 | The ingredients are cheaper than solvents but this is not always reflected in the price of finished goods . |
| 21 | Thus , what people seem to know about grammar is not always reflected in the language they use . |
| 22 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 23 | Gumperz ( 1982 : 82 ) points out , for example , that monolingual speakers are not always quoted in the language they normally use : he gives the example of a Slovenian bilingual quoting another Slovenian 's talk in German . |
| 24 | Nevertheless it was argued that these procedures violated Article 8 of the Convention on two grounds , one because people were not always notified after the surveillance , the other because there was no judicial supervision of the procedures . |
| 25 | While Collier and Rosaldo have relatively successfully characterized one type of ‘ brideservice economy ’ , they are too sweeping in their wider generalization ; for brideservice economies are not always associated with the cultural values these authors stipulate . |
| 26 | Delay times were rearranged for the consonant groups in the list for each trial so that particular consonant groups were not always associated with the same delay time . |
| 27 | Within the overall Upward trend there have naturally been fluctuations and current and capital expenditure have not always behaved in the same manner . |
| 28 | Is he aware that that problem is made worse by a small hard core of young criminals who offend again and again , but that that is not always known to the justices ? |
| 29 | It was at this point — a year or so into our campaign — that I realized that my efforts were not always appreciated by the other members of the group . |
| 30 | Some of her mannerisms and charismatic approach to leadership were not always appreciated by the conservative British . |