Example sentences of "not always [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affluent if not always prudent strokeplayer , Greenfield was the first YTS graduate to sign for Sussex , and duly led then to the 2nd XI pennant in 1990 . |
| 2 | Pamela Walford ( Mrs Vandyke-Prince ) has had an interesting but not always easy life . |
| 3 | The traffic was not always one way only : ‘ Organising our own ‘ external ’ courses for the benefit of the profession as a whole ’ . |
| 4 | It 's not always that way , but we are absolutely sick and tired of it and it 's about and sisters , that whenever we come across it , we make sure that those people do n't continue that type of harassment . |
| 5 | Not that I minded her coming in every day , just did n't , not always that time . |
| 6 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 7 | With his dome , bushy eyebrows and wide if not always convincing smile , he was a commanding figure . |
| 8 | As with many aspects of any redistributive exercise , sensitivity calculations are an acceptable if not always convincing way forward . |
| 9 | These cases represent an understandable but not always comforting compromise within the framework of the EC Treaty . |
| 10 | Old victories are savoured ; ancient defeats glossed over , and the Party 's leaders held up to a not always affectionate scrutiny . |
| 11 | Fraud does not always negative consent . |
| 12 | Concern with the nature and structure of knowledge is a continuing if not always explicit aspect of many subjects , but few discussions go beyond the single discipline or field . |
| 13 | His face bore the marks of much , not always peaceful meditation ; the look of it not bland or benevolent so much as close impregnable and hard . |
| 14 | Thus it would appear that there is not always enough information in the speech wave for identification to take place immediately . |
| 15 | I have found criticism to be a deeply enriching , but not always comfortable exploration of the text of Scripture . |
| 16 | Holy though he may have been , Pius X , abetted by the English-born Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val , waged a vigorous and not always clean campaign against the dangers of modernism . |
| 17 | It is not always plain sailing . |
| 18 | If things were not always plain sailing in her developing relationship with Nicky , her days at Maison de Levantiére were an increasing pleasure for Constance . |
| 19 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 20 | The not always obvious selection ranges from Gluck to Giordano , taking in en route Handel , Mozart , Boieldieu , Rossini , Donizetti , Thomas , Flotow , Verdi , Goldmark ( a particularly enjoyable version of ‘ Magische Tone ’ from The Queen of Sheba ) and Bizet . |