Example sentences of "was [not/n't] always [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 2 | But unrealized potential was exploited as well as people and European economic intervention was not always at the expense of the non-European . |
| 3 | But the interior meant less — though it was not always to be so — than the grounds , the lake , the woods . |
| 4 | The advice they gave was not always to the sovereign 's liking as the famous conflicts between James I and Chief Justice Coke showed . |
| 5 | Gooch was not always to convincing a figure . |
| 6 | His mother and father say they know their son was a bit of a wheeler and dealer , and was not always on the right side of the law , but they say he did n't deserve to die in this way . |
| 7 | There was even the suggestion that it was in the nature of God 's goodness that there would be a cure for every disease , an optimism that was not always in the best interests of physicians to share . |
| 8 | No , no , you said that it was , you said that because it was not always in there maybe because the socket 's too shallow |
| 9 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 10 | At the time Joe Maitland was involved in some dubious dealing and his buying was not always from legitimate sources . |
| 11 | But it was not always like this . |
| 12 | Of course , it was not always like that . |
| 13 | It was not always like that and it need not be like that now . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He just said that she was n't always at that address . |
| 16 | We kept forgetting , he was n't always like that . |
| 17 | It 'll remind you that Ninfania was n't always like this ’ — and he waved at the window to the town outside , beyond his closed shutters . |
| 18 | It was n't always like that . |
| 19 | ‘ It was n't always like this , ’ he said . |
| 20 | DeFries began to build his MainMan empire in New York and it became obvious it was n't always in support of what David was doing . |